The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-15 00:00:00

session

Minis.

Lord DENMAN summed up, and the Jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—BucKzxcliAss, JULY 13.
Yesterday being the first commission day for this circuit,
the Learne?„, Judges made their public entry into this town
in the afternoon, and, having opened the commission for
the erAnty., in due form, proceeded to their lodgings.
living attended Divine Service this morning, their Loud-
Wipe took their seats in their respective Courts at twelve
- o'clock, Mr. Justice Vaughan, as the senior Judge, presid-
ing in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Bosanquet in the
Civil Court, where there was as entry of six causes. His
Lordship in the course of the day disposed of the greater
number of these causes ; one, which was a case of seduc-
tion, having been settled, -while in another the record was
withdrawn.
CuowN ConaT.---ilenry Hoare and Robert Johnson
were capitally indicted for highway robbery, and stealing
s )me money from the person of the prosecutor, Simon
M`Gillicuddy.
The,unfortutiate prosecutor in this case was an Irishman,
and was both deaf and dumb from his birth. He was an
extremely intelligent youth, and wrote his answers to the
various questions put to him with great accuracy. Prom
his evidence thus taken, it appears he gets his living by
the sale of scriptural tracts ; and in the course of his call-
ing, it was his ill-fate to go to the Jolly Mlesters, Marlow on the evening of the fourth ofo July, what
eGrer he eat
fosind ;the prisoners and several other persons drinking.
Having exhibited his slender stock of books to the men, he
became an object first of ridicule for his defects, and after-
wards of brutal attack for his patience. A lighted paper
was put to his trousers, and he was considerably burnt. Upon
receiving this injury, he turned round on his many assailants,
an" e,fter knocking down two, he bit a piece off the thumb of a
third, when he was put out of house by force. According to
his evidence, lie was immediately followed by the prisoners
and a third man, and knocked down, and robbed of 2/.
in gold and silver. lie swore positively to the fact of the
robbery, and the person with whom lie lodged proved that
he had the money safe in his pocket in the afternoon, and.
that at midnight he returned home with visible marks of ill-
usage without his money, and with his waistcoat pocket (in
which it was kept) torn nearly out.
The Jury, after some deliberation, acquitted lhe pri-
soners, and they were discharged, after an approriate monition from the Learned Judge. p ad-
[lt is not the least singular feature in this case, or the one
of the least hardships on the poor prosecutor, that for want,
of ability to find sureties to answer for his appearance to
prosecute, he has been kept in close confinement in gaol for
a period of nearly five months ; during the whole of that
time he has been deprived of the means of supporting him-
self, and he is now set at liberty without a shilling to keep
him from starving, or the means of earning one. The fault
is in the law, and not in those who are bound to, administer
it ; but it is a grievous hardship on this poor man. The
calendar contains the name of another unfortunate prose-
cutor, a foreigner, who is in custody for the 'same cause.]