The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-25 00:00:00

CRIYANAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(P)crore Mr. Justice VAUGHAN and Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
CUTTING AND MAIMING.—William Davis, a gardener,
aged 73, was indicted with feloniously assaulting Jane
Davis, his wife, with a sharp instrument, on the right arm,
on Monday, the llth of September last, of which she lin-
gered until the 16th of the same month, when she died.
Sarah Malcom lived at 55, Praed-street, Paddington.
The prisoner and his wife lived next door. On Monday,
the 11th of September, as she was going to bed, she heard
groans in the prisoner's house ; on going there she disco-
vered Mrs. Davis lying on the floor bleeding very much
from the right arm. A surgeon was sent for, but did not
come for an hour. When the surgeon came the prisoner
was locked up stairs in his bedroom. Witness prevailed
upon him to open the door, when she asked him how he
came to do so dreadful a thing ; he said that Mrs. Davis
had been quarrelling with him, and had struck hind sev•-• ;
rai
that when she did SD be h.oda.knifc k hi.
.and to cut a
candle in two, rte that helna
in an unguarded moment
he stuck it in her arm. He said he was very sorry for what he
had done. Mrs. Davis died on the Saturday following the oc-
currence. She told witness before her death that she
had struck her husband. Witness knew that the prisoner
was subject to fits, and had often beard him say his head
was so bad he did not know what he did.

Mr. F.-Philpots, a surgeon, of Paddington, was called
in to attend Mrs. Davis. He found her with a large stab
in her arm, which had divided the arteries, and exceeding' I
exhausted from loss of blood. Witness attended her tit
her death, which had been caused by the wound, in connt
quence of gangrene and mortification ensuing.
The prisoner, in a most rambling and unintelligible de-
fence, said that he had no intention whatever to wound his
wife, and he was surprised when she cried out " Murder,
Murder," and " Blood, blood." He had the knife in his
hand to cut a candle, and he supposed she must have
wounded herself when she struck him with the broom in
consequence of a quarrel they had.
Mr. Justice VAUGHAN summed upoand
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. •
Daniel Sullivan, an ill-looking fellow, was indicted wit h
feloniously assaulting Michael Hey on the 14th of tl.e
present month at St. Mary, Newington, with intent io
murder him.

Michael Hoy stated that on the 14th of the present
month, he and the prisoner were at a public house at St.
Mary, Newington, where they had a quarrel and fought ;
the prisoner was knocked down several times ; at last he
got up, struck at the witness, who immediately cried out
that the prisoner had stuck a knife into his side. The pro-
secutor on undressing himself, discovered blood trickling
down his Fide, and instantly called a policeman who took
the prisoner into custody. Witness was several days :n
the hospital. _ _ _

Mr. PAYNE, who appeared for the prosecutor said, that
as the law now stood, he was afraid the pliscner w( uld be
entitled to an acquittal, although after the Ist of October
the case would be very different.
Mr. Justice PATTESON concurred with the Learned
Counsel, and directed an acquittal, observing t:iat the pri-
soner might be indicted for an assault.

James Ilammeisley, a young man, was convicted of
feloniously assaulting James M'Michael, a policeman of the
11 division, 131, an the 10th of July last year, and ser.tence
of death was recorded against him.