The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-06 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE-BEFORE THE CHIEF BARON.

Anthony Bridgen was indieied for the murder of
'William Hammond, at Duncombe, in the County
of Sussex, by giving him several blows, and throw_
ing him down, which caused a violent and mortal
conqussion of the brain. _This was merely a boxing
inatcla-whiCh tooke place between the parties, and
in which the Prisoner had been, highly' provoked—
. the Jury found him guilty of manslaughter,. and the
Juhige fined him one shilling, and ordered him to be
-discharged.
Andrew Jones was indiiaed for a highway fob-
bery, by forcibly -taking from Richard Brown the
sum ot-`6s. 3d. on'the sth of May last, in the parish
of Hitching.
R. Brown, the Prosecutor, gave the following
account of the transaai9n : On the 6th of May he
said he bad been. to take, his wages,; on returning
home between nine and ten, near Cat's-head,Bar, a
- person came up to hiM—he saw his face, and he
knew-it to be the Prisoner, and demanded his money,
at the same time ,holding a knife to his throat ;
there was another man behind him, but he could
not swear to him, as he did not see his face. The
Prisoner bid him deliver his money—rhe::Said he had
none. The Prisoner replied it was a lie, and he
would cut his throat if he-did not deliver it ; the
other man 'behind him put his -hands into his: waist-
coat pocket and took, it out. He had seen tbe.Pri.
soner several times before, and knew his face—he
was one who travelled about the country. -_

The, Prisoner in his defence set up an alibi, and
to support it called two women—the first, Ann
Rexhall; said she was one who travelled about the
country selling cabbage-nets, knit gloves, &c. On
the sill May last she was at Horsted Canes—the
Prisoner bad his tent there. As she, had a great
way to go she stopped there also. She saw the Pri-
soner in bed, and snoring at ten o'clock ; she sat up
to work=—Horsted Canes ‘va& about a mile from
Cat's.head Bar, but the Prisoner went to bed at
eight o'clock, and had not stirred at ten ; had tea,
bread and butter for supper.; besides her there was
another woman, DAme COates, there.
Dame Coates.was nest called, and she gave the
same testimony, excel)i that she said the Prisoner
had potatOes boiled in a kettle for supper.
• The Jury found the Prisaner guilty ; saying
they did not believe. the Witnesses for the defence.
But as the women were confirmed in some respeds
by the Constable wlio apprehended the man, the
CHIEF BARON humanely advised them to reconsider
their vesditt ;‘.but.as they said they Were of
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nion that the women ought not to ,be believeJ, the
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verdia of guilty was recorded. ,
One of the old women (for they were. both aged)
who gave :testimony for the Prisoner, having stated
a conversation between her and the Constable,
which the latter denied ; but it appearing in the
course of the examination, that she had mistaken
the- Constable for his son, and there were strong
reasons to believe that the fad was true, though.
she had mistaken the person, his Lordship deferred
pronouncing sentence, and most mercifully - di-
reaed; before he did it,--that the san should be sent
for that night, in orier that he might see him,• to
know if the faa was as the Witness bad repre-
sented.

A bill was presented against a young man aged
nineteen, of the name of Davey, for a forgery on
the'Briihton Bank, which was thrown out.
NVIIi;CHESTER, JULY, 3i.--Yesterday se'nnight
the Assizes for Hampshire commenced before Sir
GILES ROOKE on the Crown side, and Sir R. GRA-
HAM at Nisi Prius.—The business lasted four days,
in the course of which John 'Willis was tried for the
wilfulmurder of
.'George Wheeler, at Basingstoke,
the circumstances of which were proved in evidence
exadly as they had been stated before the Coroner,
and, as related in a former Paper; .he was cense.
quently
,found guilty, and sentenced to be himg.on
Monday, and his body disseled.—Elizabeth Davis,
committed on suspicion of having urged Wallis to
the-murder, was tried and acquitted.
James Cooper,. tried on a cliurge.af having sto-
len a two-yearling heifer from the forest of Bete
William Cooper; son of the before-mentioned Pri-
soner, for sheep-stealing ; Henry Falck, for steal-
ing a gold watch in a dwelling-house ; and Francis,
alias Tomas Green, for stealing money, &c. in a
dwelling-house,. were all capitally convided, and
left fcir execution.

Sarah Field and William Jacob, tried for different
robberies ; John Avery anti John Lock, for horse-
stealing.; and Sarah. Groves, for uttering counter_
. feit money, were also capitally conviaed, but re-
' prieved before,the Judges left the city.
" John Walker, Edward Sturgin, Wm. 'Wilkins,
James Beard, and. Jame Hamilton,-- for different
offences, were sentenced to seven years transporta-
tion ; Samuel EckwOrth and Richard. Andrews, for
having the King's Naval Stores, in their possession,
the former six months, the latter one month, in
Bridewell,, and both to stand in the pillory at the
Dock Gates. Mary Smith, for uttering bad silver,
a year's imprisonment; and about twenty. were
acquitted. •
There were very few causes at Nisi Prius, and
-not one of the least' public interest.