The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 16.
(Before Mr. Commissioner ETANs.)

A number of cases were put down for hearing this
morning, but like the business of the Court for the last
two or three weeks, they contained not one point of any
interest.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

These sessions, the eleventh and last but one of the
present Mayoralty, commenced yesterday before the Re-
corder, Mr. Alderman Hughes, and Mr. Alderman Mus-
grove, the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, &c.
The calendar is extremely light, perhaps lighter than
has been known on any previous occasion, there being
only about 143 prisoners for trial.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The lipconDEß proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He should only trouble them with a few obser-
vations as the calendar was comparatively light, and not
encumbered with many cases of great moment, neither
were there any particular description of cases which in-
volved matters of law requiring observations from
the Court. The charges were all simple in their
evidence and their facts. There were, however, three
cases of rather an alarming nature. First, there was a
charge of shooting at, and wounding, with attempt to
murder. Another charge was administering poison in
order to destroy life ; and the third charge was that
of rape. He would not go into the particulars of any
of these cases, because that would be anticipating the
duty that would have afterwards to devolve upon the
Court, as there were circumstances in those cases
that induced the Court to think that the grand jury
would put them in a further train for trial. The facts
of the case of shooting with intent to murder were
clear, and added to that there were the declarations of
the party at the time. As to any question of insanity,
that was not to be taken into consideration by the
grand jury, but left to the Court. As to
the case of administering poison, the grand
jury would judge whether the facts were sufficient
to put the party on his trial, and showed that he
administered the poison. As to the charge of rape, be
thought the grand jury would think there was sufficient
evidence to enable them to place the matter in a further
state of investigation. There was also a charge of man-
slaughter against a party who had run over another with
a cart and caused his death. If that had taken place
through the negligence of the party charged, it amounted
to the crime of manslaughter. The Learned Judge
after slightly adverting to some of the other cases in the
calendar, remitted the grand jury to the performance of
their duties.

The grand jury having retired, the Court proceeded to
swear in the petty jury.
Susan Parry, 32, described as a widow, was in-
dicted for unlawfully concealing the birth of her ille-
gitimate child. There were two counts in the indict-
ment; the first charged that the infant was born dead,
and the second that it was born alive.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty upon the
first count, and the Recorder having directed that the
verdict should be so especially entered, sentenced the
prisoner to be kept to hard labour for six months.
Some other cages were disposed of, but they were
of an uninteresting description, and the Court ad-
journed at five o'clock.