The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-03 00:00:00

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Secondary Jamas.)
ROLAND V. RANDALL.
The plaintiff in this action is a tailor in Pantou-streot, Haymarket,
and the defendant is a gentleman residing at Tunbridge Wells.
The action was brought to recover the sum of 131. 124. for goods
sold.

The defendant did not plead, and the jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff.
This was the only cause in the list.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
The COMMON SERGEANT"presided in this Court, in the absence of
Mr. Justice Mauls, who is unwell.
CII ARGIL OF MURDER.

Martin Jennings, labourer, aged 21, was placed at the bar, charged
wlth the wilful murder of Mary Murray, on the 14th of March.
There was a second count charging the offence as manslaughter.

James Maloney, brother of deceased, examined-1 saw the body of
the deceased shortly after her death. ,

Esther Tye—l live at No. 8, George-yard, Golden-lane. I remem-
ber that on the 14th of March my husband and the prisoner came
home at about ten o'clock and stopped until two o'clock ; the de-
ceased came in at that hour. She took a bottle from her pocket and
asked us to drink. The prisoner was ♦ery drunk then. I did not
notice that deceased was drunk. She got up to go out, and prisoner
followed her and asked her for a shilling. She said she had not get
it, and he then etruck her twice on the face and skoulder. They
both then went out to the stairs, prisoner still asking for the shilling.
I heard a slight scuffle then. I saw her next lying on the dust-hole,
on her hack, insensible. I took her to the next house, and tried to
restore her. The police came soon after, and took her away on a
stretcher.

Cross-examined I can't say that I ever saw deceased much
" tossicated in lieker." I hadn't seen her for three months before.
John Waldron—l live with my mother at Mo. 11, George yard,
Golden-lane. I came home on the night of the 14th of March
about eleven o'clock. I heard a scuffle at tie. 8. I saw the prisoner
and deceased wrangling in the passage, the former saying that the
latter had taken a shilling from him. I saw him strike her on the
face and breast. I then went away, and I heard a scream. I re-
turned in about ten minutes, and saw her lying in the dust-hole.
Elizabeth Roland —O■ the night in question I saw prisoner and
deceased came out of Mrs. Tye's together. I saw him strike her
about the face severa► times, and she fell into the dust-hole.
Cross-examined—l did not hear deceased cry out.
Elizabeth Tye, a child about seven years old, was next called, but
was not examined.

Constable 62 G ibund the deceased insensible and bleeding. Gave
her some water, and she died soon after, and never spoke.
Constable 226 G saw deceased vomit, and she died immediately.
She steel strongly of spirits.
John Glover Mather, surgeon, examined deceased. Found two
marks on the shoulder and extravasation of blood. There was a
mark over the right eye-brow. The cavities of the brain were IMO
with extravasated blood. Cannot say that the blow over the eye
caused that appearance ; rather thinks it was not. The state of the
brain was caused by the rupture of a blood vessel.
To the COURT—The blew hastened death.
Cross-examined—lt is not at all uncommon that persons in the
habit of drinking die in this way. Drunken habits predispose the
blood vessels to rupture. Deceased had what is called a nutmeg, or
drunkard's liver.
In answer to the Court, the witness said he would not like to say
that the blow hastened the death of deceased.
Mr. Courtenay, surgeon, of St. Luke's Workhouse, examined de-
ceased. Is of opinion that the blow in question, coupled with a state
of drunkenness and the excitement of quarrelling, would have caused
her death ; but she would not have died without that blow.
Mr. Mather was recalled, and lie said he differed in opinion ftom
Mr. Courtenay as to the effects of tke blow.

Here the case closed.
Mr. PARRY briefly addressed the jury, but did not call any wit-
ness for the defence. He spoke in very strong terms of the ma-
gistrate who committed the prisoner en a charge of wilful murder,
and this branded him for a time amongst his fellows as a murderer ;
whilst they had it in evidence that deceased was an habitual
drunkard, and predisposed, from those habits, to sudden death.
His LORDSHIP, having briefly summed np,
The jury found a verdict of Manslaughter.
Two witnesses wore called, and gave witness a good character.
The prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction.
CHILD MURDER.--Mary Anne Martha Hicks, spinster, aged 22,
stood indicted for the murder of a new-born female child, on Feb. 17.
Mary Anne Hicks examined—Prisoner is my husband's sister. She
got her living as a servant. She lived .with an. for about a month,
up to the 17th of February. I did know she was pregnant. It ap-
peared from the further evidence of this witness that, on the day in
question, she found the tamale in the water-closet, and discovered such
appearances there as left no doubt upon her mind that the prisoner