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London, England, 1810-08-29 00:00:00

the prisoner; of whicii he Thought there had been
snfficient pro2f Idly, Whether tl;e prisoner
knew that it 'wag fOrged ?' • Ere )615erv.ed7' that she
witness Pearce had " looked nt the ,note; and,bl,;(*!d:
it the better the more he looked at it ;" that any .one

might have been deceived by it ; that the prisoner's
.being at Launceston was satisfaetorhy accowitecffer,
as well as his going to Budmip, .whither he went on
'his duty, and'not,to 'mold detentioiy that there was
an apparent necessity fur changing one of theootes:
at Launceston, though the'necessity for changing
the other was not ov,Viotli,; that it.w4i4.true another
bad note was found in the prtsonef's,possession,at
Bodmin, but he readily delivered it to the Mayor.—
" Then," said his Lordship, " wooLf the-e three
notes have been taken by any one .at one time
There is nothing-suspicious on the face of them ;
myself should have; taken thet.n.without suspicion:"
He then added, that in this case there•was no put-
ting off the notes to s.rangers ; that the prisoner*
himself was well known at I..atinceston, and the
prisoner's brother a respeCtable resident there; eon-
eluding. with the observation, that very favourable
testimony had been gven to the ptisoner's diameter,
and that M.all doubtful cases; particularly in. capital 1
ones, unless the Case was extremely dear, character
should have weight.
. The Jury althost immediately 'returned a verdict
of -Not Guilty. Consequently, ,no evidence wits of-
tered on another bill which' had been !build a-
gainst the prisoner, lor having the note in quei-
tion in his possession without lawful excuse.
James Kent was indicled for the murder of John
EL-nwood. Mr. East, the Cipeasel.lOr the Crown,
in his address to the Any, which was conceived in
that spirit 'of humanity and tender feeling for the
accts-ed,which in such cases isal ways faint' to adorn ,
thelritish advocate,,and which, whatever may have
been said of the severity of• our penal, laws, so well
accords with the inert. tel administration cif Ahern;
admitted, that the charge, of murder • could not be
itt 'ported, but, as far as he Could judge, froth the
very imperfect information, which had been reluc-
tantly gi% en to his client, the sniic.itor for the,prese-
cution,coneeiveci that-the.jury could have little dii-.
ficulty'in arriving at the,conclusion, that the prisoner
was guilty of manslaughter. .
The first witness called was Robt. Drew, a butcher.
of St.Columb, who stated,.that.he was folloWing
occupation in the market-house at that' place, be..
twieen three and four o'clock in the atterttooreof the

14th July last 011:it he s_iw the prisoner and the de-.
oiceased piaying together there for about half an
hour. Th-y then came towards witness's stand-.
lug, who thought they were playing as hetore, when
on a sudden; the deceased sprang mer thestamling
and caught witness by- the• neck, exclaiming, " On
Mr. Drew! Mr. DreW ! milled' for eirer !"--
Ihe witness thought he tad bun himself ih his play;
The .surgeon came soon-afterwards, and the. deceased
was put away, when, and not 'odor:, witness ob 6
:served a butcher's knife' :in the prisoner's :hand,
which he had noticed opt a neighbouring stall hetore
they began to play. T.,e ;market-house., was. then
nearly empty, alt the butchers and their attendants
havii;g-giine away, except witness and
The prisoner was about thirteen, and the deceased
anout •oxteen years of age, the taller and stonier of
the Iwo. -

ElizaDeft}, Drew, the
,wife, of the last, witness's,
merely conul uied•her. husband's testin.ony.
John Walkey -was -also in the market-house, but
did not obserte the prisoner and the deceased till the

latter sprang toward Drew ; he then saw the prisoner,
who was separated by a standing from the deceased.
As soon as the deceased saw witness,. he said, " My
dear John.," and witntis asking what was the mat-
ter, be replied, " Kent has stabbed me with a
knife." The prisoner cdot;nued in the same place,
and witness did not observe any- thing in his hand.
He told the prisoner he would come to the gallows;
he did not understand his reply ; but the deceased
said, "I fear he will." .4 ,
Jonathak Higgs, a butcher 'and maltster, Wag:pass-
ing through the market-house, and on his coming
near the deceased, the latter said, "Oh, my dear
Mr. Higgs !" The witn,,ss asking him. what was
the matter, he said, " I am stabbed by James Kent."
Witness turning round. saw' the prisoner about or
20 feet off, with a butcher's, knife in his hand, and
said, " James, what .have you done ?" His answer
was, "He had no business to touch me ;" or,
"He had no business to clinch me." The surgeon
was ti,en sent for. •
• Mr. John Jewell, a surgeon, examined the wound
in the market-house, •and described it to the Court
arid'Jury. - It was'a)titortal wound. The „deceased
was first carried to witness's-house, and afterwards'
removed to. his-mother's„which was hard, by, where
he died about eleven o'clock on the.lolloWitig morn-
ing.. On his cross-.exaMination, this witness said,
that Dot-tor Peters was sent for in the evening' of the
day bt;..tOre his death. The deceased was in bed,
and said he had received the wound in the market-
house, and that he was'standing up, at the time.,
Mr. WtiliamMountsteven, also a surgeon, opened
the.body of the deceased after his deqtb. The wound
had penetrated into
.the cavity of the abdomen, and
was mortal.. It had wounded one. of the intes-
tines, and the whole cavity was full of coagulated
blood.