The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-27 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

This morning at 10 o'olook Mr. Baron Channel!
took his seat in the Crown Court, and Mr. Baron
Watson sat at Nisi Prins. After the usual formali•
ties had been gone through in the Crown Court the
following gentlemen were sworn of the

GRAND JURY.
Henry Frampton, Esq., Foreman's,
Colonel ktiohard Hipp,'ley Bingham.
Charism Wriotheely Digby, Esq.
John James Farquhnrson, jun., Esq.
Captain Charles Augustus Manning,
John Clavel Mmiii, Eq.
William Charles Lambert, Esq.
Joseph Oundry, Esq,
William Lewis Henning, Eq.
Henry Charles Goodden, Fwq.
}flutings Nathinicl M ddleton, Esq.
Harwood Shuttlewortn Yeatuinn, Esq,
(isorge Cartwright, Esq.
Jim.. Henning, Esq.
Montague Williams, Esq.
Frederick Bourno, Esq.
Benjamin Pouliot Oundry, Ewq.
Wlilismn Hcanmond Sully, Esq.
John Scarborough, Esq.
Her Majesty's Proclamation against vice and im•
morality having been read, Mr. Baron CHANNELL
delivered the following

CHARGE:

Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—l have great plea.
I sure in again mooting the Grand Jury of Doreetahire
I Alle•Mbled to take their important share in the due
administration of the justice of the country. I shall
not, however, have °wagon to trouble you with any
lengthened remarks at the present time. The cal-
sutler, as regards numbers, is about, I believe, on •
par with that with which we had recently to deal,
at least, it contains about the same number of oases
as we had to deal with in the summer of 1856, the
last occasion on which I addressed you. But, al-
though they are small in number, some of the oases are
of an estramoly a gravateci nature. I do not think,
however, I can offer you any remarks of a very useful
character in referenoe to the oases for your considera-
tion, knowing that amongst your body are many
gentlemen very well acquainted with such matters.
The case of John Corry Bishop, a person who
carried on a leather dealer's and shoemaker's business,
and who is charged with the manslaughter of
Robert Cousins, I will first refer to. It appears
that deouased hat been fur somo time in his employ, !
and some suspicion fell on deceased with refer.
once to e no property mimed from the
shop of prisoner. An inquiry ensued. The
deceased's premises were searched and something was
found belonging to another party present which led
to an inveatigation before toe magistrates, I men•
tion this to amount fur some supposed feeling of
enmity on the part of the deceased towards the pri
sonar. It appears after this that the deceased con.
looted himself in a very improper way, annoyed the
prisoner, and in the afternoon he was seen on the
steps of the prisoner's shop. There is reason to
believe that he had been requested to go away,
However, if he had been on the step* the prisoner
would have a right to request him to go away, and
if he insisted on remaining on the steps the prisoner
would have been Justified in using • moderate
amount of form. If then, instead of death ensuing,
an action for trespass had been brought, on his de•
olining to go away, such a defence would have
been a sufficient plea of justitioation. In this case
the criminal law assimilates itself to the civil, and
you mast be satisfied that death ensued front the act
of the prisoner. The prisoner was seen but by one
witness—a female—to push the deceased, and the
same witness will tell you that the deceased ditl nut
fall from that push, there Is, therefore, no evidence
1 upon the depositions showing by any witness time
any push by the prisoner caused the death of the
demised. There Is evidence by a medical UM
which may lead you to doubt whether or not the
death was not the mull of a this. The prisoner gave
an amount of the matter in which he sold he pushed
the deoeuedgently but not using any violence, If
you think that the prisoner did no more than was
necessary to remove dammed front his premises,
aonsidering that he was not guilty of inieemive vio.
lance in that respect, but that death may have
ensued from a 11l tii 001146111140400 of natural Paulo,
you will throw out the bill. If you consider that
the death ensued front the act of the prisoner then It
will have to be considered by a petty Jury whether
manslaughter or justifiable homiaide WA/ committed
by the prisoner, The prisoner is out on bail. I
will just call your attention to the oath of Henry
Vootabe charged with perjury, It appear' three
pow's were charged at Wliaborite with stealing
we and the prisoner Wil called to prove what re
sated an alibi, Zia law of perjury lately gone
under grailelleideration in the *eloper (hw a I
ben, However, the old law Is two witnesses
Ind glee evidence, and it elld needs eontiruictory
evidence in order to a etinvietion, The roomer
himself annul give evidence but there mull be the
evldenue of two 'Mouses or of one and evidenee of a
doontosnlory oliameterL. In this ease there is no
lionised le refer to, You will have to see there Is
no mistake as to the dayt AO the matter prinuipally
Sumgait the question whether the prisoner mild have
been In the company of the party sharguil before the
magnetite during the whole of one day or not, If
be ware the alibi le proved if not he is guilty of per.
Jury, There le another ease lii the paper, that of JAMS
Sisal who Is alleged with the wilful murder of !tarok
Aim guppy, It appears that she wits a young
woman, somewhere about id years stage, that she
lived with her mother, Habana Guppy, who lodged
with a James flatl, and that under the same roof was
Another resident by name John Hutchings. The
mother had been out At work on the Onth of April,
the day of the murder, but had returned AO an tin.
usually early hour for dinner in eonsequenoe of the
badness of the weather. She left her daughter at
home. There is reason to believe that somewhere
between two and three the murder was committed,
There Is a person named Jane °umiak, who lived at
no
great distance ng, who had occasion to Jo into
her garden, and en got about twenty yards from the
deuatealb Mho heard a scream which she thought '
was from the deceased, and shortly afterwards the
prisoner was seen to mine out of the house and shut
the door. The witness named was under the lui• '
preasion that the prisoner tried to elude her, and she
kept in his company about squatter of an hour. Mb.
Saw blood on his finger. You will attend to her evl•
deuce on that point. She also had conversation with
him about Barala Ann Guppy. She inquired what she
had been screaming for. He said, nothing. Wit•
nem then asked what he had been doing with her.
He said, nothing. Than she inquired what demeaned
had been doing. Prisoner replied, peeling potatoes.
You will be satisfied by the evidence of • medical
man that the deceased could not have committed the
sot of herself. There was • lire at the house after I
that, and in consequence of the alarm of the fire per
sons were drawn thither. The young woman will
found there by those persons, and two, and after-
wards, I believe, a third knife and • fourth were
found. One was said to belong to • neighbour sd•
Joining, Mr. Richards. When the prisoner was
taken into custody that afternoon blood was found
on his clothes. He gave some account of this to the !
policemen by saying that he had out his finger. ,
Some portion of the blood was wet, and there is I
some doubt on the deposition whether the out on the
linger was made on that day or eight-and-forty hours
before. Blood was found, upon his clothes, and
afterwards when he was taken to the station in the
evening more blood ',no found on him, which Ap-
peared to have been there but recently. A door

was afterwards produced which WA identified as the
door which one witness had seen the prisoner shut.
Blood is found on the door, and if you are satisfied
with what the witness tells you, no one but him was
seen to come out of that door. The murder was not
discovered until about 4 o'clock when the lire broke
out. Jane Cornick heard the screams and the min-
ute afterwards saw the prieonar come out. Of course,
you or not to decide whether or not the prisoner
is guilty ; but if you find reason to put him on
his trial, that will be for the petty jury to deter-
mine. I shall not trouble you with any more re-
marks. His Lordship then dismissed the Grand
Jury to their chamber.