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mooy as to the row. The injury her sistmin-lew received was very
severe. The child was born on the Weduesdsf and died on the
Snturday following. She sow the child bolo. it was not likeieter
children. It could not open its mouth.to take any nourishment.
Cross-examined by !dr. A pot. PH y sister-in-law did not
interfere between her husband and the prisoner, eLeept by asking
the latter &it her husband's list. The fight was about three or four
minutes before the watchman came up. Neither of the woolen ie-
teetered.
Mr. Denton, surgeon, examinea.—i was called to see Mrs. Sul-
livan between the hours of seven sndetight, on the 211th of Septeen-
bet. She was then labouring under a very severe hermorrhage.
She told me she had received a kick. should not have supposed
it to have arisen from any natural .pug She was not in a state
that I anticipated an• early delivery. ahe did not complain of
any thing else at that time. I saw bee spin about ten o'clock the
same morning. The hemorrhage wea.not then so violent. I saw
her again about one o'clock. I then observed that labour was
corning on.. 1 saw het about ten minutes. I returned at six
in the evening; labour was still going. on. I wad' then with her
about ten minutes. No complaint was made by her but what na-
turally attends the pains of labour. I saw her again at ten. 'jibe
hermonhagc was more than generally is in natural cases, but that
depends upon a thouttand various circumstances. I saw her
next morning about two o'clock ; the child was then born. without
my assistance. The funie was round its neck, and caused a great
discoloitretion.. The child did not come at its natural time. So
far as I could judge the thee of gestation was not completed.
saw toe child on the following mooing. There was a little enlarge-
ment on the child's surn. At Hest I could not tell whether it was a
fracture, but I afterwards observed it wee not. There was no other
appearance remarkable. I careful! examined the child, to tee
whether there was any thing remarkable. The appeamoces were
such as would naturally be produced by a premature birth.
Cruse examined by Mr. ADOLTUCL-.-All the appearances were
such as might resole from hard work, Over-exertion, or passion on
the part of the mother, besides beim!, from external injury, except
the mark on the arm, which might ham been done after the birth of
the child.

Ittr. Baron Gmtkew, in summing up the evidence, observed,
that the cause had occupied no loner
.tome than justice demanded.
But after the most patient investigation it hod been nutted by the
last witness. whose exprience and scientific knowledge qualified
him to speak on the subject, that he cobid not assign to the Jury
any one single clrclanstence that would wailent him to say that ths
child was prematurely deltvereel in consequence of any externs! in.
jury inflicted on the mother. He would not have it go forth to the
world, that where any man offered personal violence to a woman
in estate of pregnancy, whereby he ncessioned death to the Infant,
that he would not be answerable for it up to the full extent of mur-
der but in the present case he would :Arlie them to acquit the
prisoner, upon this express ground, that the death of the child
was net.conaidered to be occasioned by any act of his.
The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of ~‘'‘d Gatlin/.
nuaoci,Antrms IN PREFERRING BILLS BEFORE
THE GRAND JCRY.
Mr. Justice PARK said, complaints had been ,jade by IFIr. Stir.
ling and others to the Judges, of a circumstance connected with the
arrangement of the business of these sessions, which he thought
ought with great propriety to be mode publicly known, and Le
therefore took the present opportunity of noticing it. When ant
alteration was lately made for the Judges to attend at this Court on
Thursday initesd of Wednesday, at the coesusencement sf the ses-
sions, it was done upon the suppositioh shit the Grand,Juries would
be able to find all the bills for capital offences in the county of Mid..
dime, and also a sufficient number of other bills, that might enable
the tuber Court to go ow With the triali dnircenies, without procras-
tinating those which, were usually tried before the Judges.; .but
complaints had been made, in which it appeared that the clerk of
the indictments, or some other person baring the management of
this branch of the public business, preferred fire all the pelt
cony cases which the Judges did not try,and kept the capitalcaitsis to
a hit. period of the session, to the great inconvenience, he woad
not say of theJudgea, es that was of no importance, but of•the
public, and of Juries. /f Mr. Clarke or i Sr. St irliok should be able
to ascertain with whom the fault rested and if it were found tp be
with any of the officers of the Court, hence/ publicly assured those
persons, that en proof of the fact 'some very seriotts punlahenent
would be visited upon them. And if he should find that the fault
was with the parties themselves whose ditty it was to attend on the
Grand Jury on the first day of the sessipn, it was his determina-
tion ncvei mallow any costs to such pemons whose conduct was
so culpable, and tended so much to the inconvenience of the
public.
Mr. Baron GARROIV also expressed his displeasure at the !rte.
gularity in the mode of preferring the bills before the Orand Jury ;
and declared it to be his determination to adopt the same line of
conduct towards the persona who were the occasion orit, as that
which his teemed Brother had resolfed upon. In addition to
the inconveniences which had been mentioned as resulting from
the practice ebniplained of. it occasioned inany persons to be kept
hom their businesses and homes a much longer time than was re.
cet.strya, and put the county to great expense.
4tirliog--Will your Lordship allow me to say a few words
in e xplanation ?
Mr. Justice PARK said he was not going to enter Into any IMP
cussion upsp2 she isthiet t. He merely mentioned the circumstance
that it might-be known to those whom it concerned, what it was
the Judges intended to do in case the intesularity enntinued.
Mr. Stirling told his Lordship he was not going to make a
speech.
Air. Justice PARK—We cannot hear you, Sir ; it is quite irre-
gular.
Mr. Clarke explained to the Court that the fault did not rest
with him, nor with Mr. Stirling.
Mr. Justice PARIC—I dare say not, Sir. I am quite satisfied
no Marne attaches to you ; and if either you or that gentleman will
ascertain with whom the fault is, and will inform either of the
Judges who,shall be sitting here, I have no doubt means will be
taken to punialt the parties severely, should such irregularity be per-
sisted in.