The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

Huron Greene.--A new precept is not necessnry.

Ev.•rytliing goes on under the uld. precept.
l'he A ttorney-General.—only we are so hard pressed
for time to reach ,'ork to night in the hope that Minh,
thing may lie done in that part of the country, I would
not have the application.
Boron I:reelle.--1 regret very touch tl.e inconvenience.
It is illy duty to administer the law. It may not be
necessary !writert to make an adjournment, but should
such a state of things arrive, as I said before, to warrant
me in discharging the jury without a verdict, of course I
shall adjourn the assizes.
The Attorney-General—l am much obliged to your
The .ktiOnlertieneral. —Of course care is taken that
tlwre is no co 'cation with the jury.
Mr. Maliony said the constables were sworn.
Baron Greene.—lbe Sheriff has been very strictly
warneil, and I know that lie is extremely careful. lam
quite sure lie has done what is proper. I shall be in
chamber if I lin sent for.
Mr. Mahon) said that the Sub-Sheriff had been up all
night in attendance upon the jury.
The two young men named Danieland Joseph Murphy,
who had refused to give evidence, were then put for-
ward, and
Baron Greene, addreasing them, said,—You were
guilty of a contempt of Court in not giving evidence as
you hail sworn to do at the table. I have made an
order for yonr committal for this contempt for the spacz
of six calendar months.
The jury were again called out at half past 12,
and
Baron Greene saill,—Gentlemen, when I called you
out last I told you it was not in my power, and that I
greatly regretted it, to discharge you without a verdict.
I perhaps should have added that the law does not
empower me to discharge you without coining to some
conclusion upon the case unless in the event of danger
to your health or your lives I think it right to mention
that to you, because if any gentleman wishes to have a
medical gentleman sent for, feeling himself unwell, I
should be very sorry to deprive him of the (Importunity
of seeing a medical gentleman, and having his opinion
upon the state of his health. I don't know whether you
are aware that that is the law ; and, therefore, I thought
it right you should know it. My inability to discharge
you arises from that cause, and certainly not from any
desire on my part to add to the laborious duty you have
undertaken in this case. I shall adjourn the Court Low
generally, and communication which any of you have to
make through the Sub-Sheriff will be conveyed to um.
suppose you have not yet agreed 7
Foreman.—No, my Lord.
Baron Greene.—That is all I have !oath!, gentlemen.
At 10 tea to :1 o'clock Dr. (*rump attethled in
court and received permission from Baron Greene to ice
one of the jury who required him.
(ireene.—Stay with I as long as you please,
and let me know your report of him. Only speak to him
on the subject of the state of his health.
At • few tea after 3 o'clock 1)r. Crump was sworn,
and stated to the Court that the juror who had called
for him hail symptome of fever, awl that further con-
finement might produce fever.
Baron Greene thereupon diseharye. d the jury and ad-
journed the Court to Wednesday, the 30th of March, at
11 o'clock.
All the prisoners were removed to gaol.