The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

NISI PRIUS COURT.-THURSDAY,

DOE DEM. SUGDEN V. WEAVER AND OTHERS.—Judith
Sugden, of Manchester, was the plaintiff, and the defen-
dants were a numerous class of persons living in small
houses in Hope-street, Manchester, alleged to belong to
the plaintiff. The action was one of ejectment, the
question to be tried being whether the plaintiff was in
legal possession of the property, a claim upon it having
been set up on the part of a person named Baxter.—His
Lordship considered the legal title of the plaintiff had
been made out, and the jury, under his direction, returned
a verdict accordingly.
COPE V. THE THAMES HAVEN DOCK COMPANY.—Mr.
Charles Cope, of Manchester, was the plaintiff, and the
Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company the defen-
dants. The action was for a sum of £145, for work and
labour performed by the plaintiff for the defendants, in
endeavouring to dispose of the undertaking to several
railway companies. For the defendants it was contended
that they had never given authority to the plaintiff to
proceed with the negotiations, and that if he were to be
paid he must look to a shareholder of the name of Smith,
who, it was alleged, had engaged the plaintiff, who, on
the other hand, contended that he received the authority
of the directors for acting as he did.

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CROWN COURT.—FRIDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)

SENTENCES.—The following prisoners, convicted on
Thursday of uttering counterfeit coin were sentenced
Mary Mitchell and Alice Rourke were transported for
seven years ; John Holden was sentenced to 18 months'
imprisonment with hard labour ; and Joseph Mills, Mar-
garet Collett, Joseph Robinson, and Thomas Campbell,
were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

BURGLARY NEAR ST. HELENS.—Richard Lyon, 37,
was charged with having at Parr, near St. Helens, bur-
glariously broken and entered the dwelling house of Eliza-
beth Glover, and stolen therein one basket, two aprons,
one handkerchief, and one key, her property. The offence
was committed on the night of Saturday the 25th of
March. Mr. Joseph Pollock was for the prosecution ;
the prisoner was not defended by Counsel.—The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner, who had been
previously convicted, was adjudged to 7 years' transporta-
tion. _ _

KILLING AND SLAYING.—James Stones, 19, was
charged with having, at Manchester, killed and slain
Charles Ellam. Mr. Pollock was for the prosecution.
Stones pleaded guilty, and was recommended to the
merciful consideration of the court by the prosecution.
His master gave him a good character, and stated that he
was willing to take him into his service again. Stones,
who had been in gaol three months, was then sentenced
to a nominal punishment of three days' imprisonment.
STABDING.—Anthony Carroll, 21, was charged with
having, at Aughton, maliciously stabbed and wounded
John Fitzpatrick, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm. Mr. Pollock was for the prosecution; the
prisoner was undefended. Both Fitzpatrick and Carroll
were labourers on the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston
Railway ; and on the sth of May they quarrelled about a
heap of soil, from which both wished to fill their waggons.
The result was that the prisoner struck the prosecutor on
the back and on the eye with a pickaxe, but without se-
riously injuring him. The two men, though fellow-
countrymen, were at enmity ; and the prisoner, previous
to the assault, complained that Fitzpatrick would never
let him alone. He added, " I would cut him or any
other man to pieces that attempted to curb over me, even
though I should be transported for it next moment."—
The prisoner was found guilty of an assault.—Sentence
deferred.
Nicholas Carter, 17, and James Smith,• 17,- were
charged with having at Ince, in Mackerfield, feloniously
wounded James Orrell with intent to do him some griev-
ous bodily harm. The counsel for the prosecution was
engaged in the other court, but Mr. Justice Creswell said
he could not wait for the other court, and ordered the case
to proceed. It turned out, however, that the witnesses
were absent, and•the learned judge complained that there
was in this and other counties a practise of employing po-
licemen as their clerks to manage prosecutions. It was,
he observed a very bad practice, and was likely to be most
mischievous in its results, as it gave the policemen an un-
due interest in procuring convictions. The witnesses
were ordered to be called on their recognizances, and at
that moment they appeared in court.—Mr. Pollock con-
ducted the case for the prosecution.—Jas. Orrell was a
watchman on a railway at Amberswood Common, on the
18th of June ; the prisoners trespassed upon it, and he was
driving them away, when they threw stones at him, struck
him, with a wooden crow bar, cutting his head and brusing
him in several parts of the body. The prosecutor was a
man of weak intellect.—The prisoners were found guilty
of an assault.
MANSLAUGHTER IN MANCHESTER.—Franeis Turley,
21, was charged with having, at Manchester, killed and
slain Thomas Shelmerdine, by the negligent and incau-
tious driving of a car. Mr. Pollock was for the prisoner.
Oa the night of the Bth of April, the prisoner was driving