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Witness assisted to put her in the bed. She afterwards saw
the prisoner, who said he. thought she had been drinking
poison or something. When she first saw her, prisoner said
nothing about her having been drinking. On the second oc-
asion the prisoner was crying.
Another female saw the prisoner push the deceased, and
afterwards saw her fall. _ _ _

Inspector Co. tiamaPPrehended the prisoner. He told him
he was apprehending him for killing his wile. He replied
she was not his wife. . .

Mr. Eckerly, surgeon, made a post mortem examination
of the body. There was a fracture of the skull, which was
the cause of death. There was no mark on the side as of a
blow. She had stays on when he first saw her.
The sister of the deceased said she (deceased) was not mar-
ried. The prisoner and she had lived fourteen years together.
Mr. MURPHY spoke at some length in behalf of the pri-

His LORDSHIP summed up perspicuously, and the jury
returned a verdict of guilty. His LORDSHIP, after seriously
admonishing the prisoner on the violence of his conduct to
the deceased, who was under his protection, sentenced him
to be imprisoned four months,—the first and last week in
solitary confinement.

Luke Mills, was indicted for causing the death of Stephen
Settle, at Ratcliffe, near Bury.
Richard Settle, brother to the deceased, said that on the
night of the 24th April, he was going home with him,
reckoning their wages, when the prisoner came up and said
something, to which his brother replied. They called each
other nicknames, They afterwards struggled together. Both
pulled off their jackets, and they fell several times. Luke
had iron clogs on. He threw deceased over his head, and ran
two or three yards to him and kicked. Deceased afterwards
walked home with witness. He held his hands to his belly
and said be was ruined. He died on the Sunday night-after-
wards, (next day.) He was well before.
Cross examined.—His brother had been labouring under
a looseness of the bowels for three days. _ _

James Blakely saw the affray. They rolled a little on the
ground. Stephen said he would pull of his jacket, which
witness took to be a challange to fight. They both took their
jackuts off and began again. Stephen struck first. Mills
then threw him over his head, and afterwards gave him a kick.
He was close to him at the time, and the kick was not a
heavy one. They wrestled again and rolled a little. Stephen
afterwards walked away by his brother's side, without any
assistance.

Another witness corroborated the last, in essential par-

ticulars

Mr. Holmes, Surgeon, made a, post mortem examination,
and found inflamation and rupture of the bowels, also slight
mortification. A kick or a severe fall would produce it.
There were no outward marks of violence.
Cross-examined by Mr. WILK'Ns.—I cannot say what
time inflammation had been going on. Mortification is the
death of the parts. If I had not heard of the wrestling, I
should have attributed the rupture to external violence. I
do not think that the inflammation would cause the rupture.
The bowels might be ruptured, by their being elastic, without
having an external mark.
Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that the diarrhoea under which the deceased laboured
might have produced inflammation, which wouid reach to
mortification ; and that the parts having lost their power, a
rupture might arise from the abruption of the contents,
without a blow.

His LORDSHIP summed up, noticing the kick with a clog
tipped with iron, which was not denied ; and he knew of no
sort of fair fighting in which such an instrument could be
used. His lordship inclined to take the evidence of the me-
dical witness in preference to the suggestion thrown out by
the learned counsel.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The learned JUDGE in passing sentence adverted in a for-
cible manner to the horrid practice of kicking, of which he
was glad to find only this case in the present calendar. The
sentence was, that he be imprisoned for three calendar months
and kept to hard labour, and that the concluding week in
each month be in solitary confinement.

Alexander Meanley-I;vas indicted for the killing and slay-
ing, at Liverpool, of John Williams. Some difference had
arisen between the prisoner and deceased at the corner of a
street, and a few blows were exchanged, when the deceased
fell, and almost immediaiely expired. It appeared, however,
from the evidence of the surgeon who had examined the
body, that the immediate cause of death was a disease of the
heart, which the slightest encounter might render fatal. The
jury acquitted the prisoner, and he was discharged.