wife quarrelled and fought; he stated that he choked her with her
neck handkerchief, and as she turned round toward him, then choked
her with his hand until she died. The examiner declared that she died
of asphyxia; there was a brownish-red dry streak on each side of the
neck in the laryngeal region corresponding to the handkerchief, and
also two small abrasions of skin which might have been made by the
hands; he concluded, however, that she had been choked to death by the
handkerchief, because there were no ecchymoses.