The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

Somerortshire.

SPRING ASSIZES.

The judges opened the ponnitssioa for bolding the
assizes lor Somerset oa 'Wednesday, end commenced
the trials on the following sooentag. The calendar
contained the acmes of 68 prisoners led only seven
ewes were entered in the muse list.

SWIM Coune--(Befors the Dmo Cuter BLEW).
Janke ?bore, aged 30, was indicted for malicimudy
causing bodily ham to Charlotte Thorn at Mooney.
on the 1011 of March. The prisoner pleaded " Guilty."
The prisoner in the best of peedon threw • red-hot poker
at his HMIs child, entirely destroying the sisitt (done eye.
The Lord Chief Baron strongly denouneed his offence,
and sentenced him to prod servitude for 90 years.
William Nutt was lad bud for the manslaughter of
Tbriza Nutt, at Somerton, on the 15th of December.
The priaorier indicted • sense beating on his wife while
she was suffering from Shwas, and in • short time she
died. The surgeon yea of opinion that the death was
not caused by the actual blow, bat by a shook to the
system.cansed by blows, white !rens visible on her head.
The enamor. in his defence, mad that his wife had got
out of bed and fallen downstairs, and that she was out
of her mind. The fury found him guilty, and he warn
sentenced to penal ten-audio for seven years.

Civit SIDE.—(Ba,mI Mr. Jagis. Btu's aid
'Pedal jury.)

COMB V. Praires.—The plaintiff was Mr. Robert
Coles, • carpenter and sawyer, of Bridgwater, and for
26 years a member of the Baptist Church there, of whieh
the defendant, Mr. Jceeph Perkins, was the pastor.
Tke action was brought to recover sempensatirni for •
malicious libel, whist' the defendant was alleged to hare
uttered of the plaintiff in arousing him of perjury before
a committee of the House of Comnions in reference to
the inquiry about bribery at the Bridgwater eleeMon.
The jury found for the plaintiff upon two counts, giving
upon the first £2 damages. and £5O on the amoonif. They
were else of opinion that the libel had been maliciously
utb•red by the defendant.
SHIPRICID v. THIS BWITOL LSD Rama RAILWAY
CORIPAIT.— Mr. Coleridge, g.c.. and Mr. Saunders were
eosin& for the plaintiff; and Mr. Priciest's, Q.c., and
Mr. Cole, Cie.. for the defendants. The plaintiff was •
(rosier at hitogruiey, and on January Sib he sent 22
rat beasts by the defeadarite railway, for the 'dingiest
market on the following Meader, Jan. 7th. The beasts
ought to bare arrived at 7 o'clock on Sudsy morning,
but they did not reach Paddingtou till 11 o'ideek on
that day, and then the Great Western Company refined
to deliver them until after 12 o'clock at night. They
bad bees taken out of the trues and placed in pens.
Two of this escaped, and straying on the line were
killed, and the remaining 20 were not delivered in time
for the market, and were not sold until the following
Thursday. The plaintiff, therefore, brought this motion
to recover £54 the value of the two beasts which had been
killed, and CIO for the deterioration in value of the
remainder; be also claimed £3 9e. for their keep horn
the Monday to the Thursday, and £6 6.. for his parreocal
expenses. For the defence it was contended that the
defendants had fulfilled their waitron se loon as they
had conveyed the cattle to the Paddington Station, and
that they were not liable for any lota. The jury found
• 'readied for the plaintiff for 253 9a
Mr. Justice Byte., having finished the civil business,
triad prisoners, and Mr. Hingdon, Q.C., also tried pri-
soner, In the Grand Jury-room.
Although there were numerous cases in the ealender,
yet they were in maid for very small larcenies bat la
the prisoner, had been previously convieted of offenses,
the magistrates could not deal with them in • mammary
way. The anises concluded yesterday.