New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-01
NEWS OF THE CITY.

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. following
decisions were rendered in the Supreme Court
on Monday last 4:
State of Louisiana, appellee, u.s. VIM Gates,
appellant Appeal from the Tenth District
Court of Madison. This appeal is prosecuted
from a judgment sentencing the appellant to
imprisonment at hard labor Among other mat
tiers of error, it is assigned as ground for the re-
versal of the Judgment, that it does not appear
of record that the jury who rendered the YER
dict were sworn, Judgment Of District Court
reversed and case remanded for q new trial
A, T. Bethca, appellee, u.s. G. Hood, appel
lant-Appeal from Tenth District Court of Car
| roll. Judgment Of the lower court reversed
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT-Judge Robertson
The trial of VIM. Murray, charged with having
dangerously stabbed John Roach, in coffee
house at the corner of Rampant and Common
streets, on the night of the 9Th of August last,
| Came up in this court yesterday. The jury
after being out few minutes, returned YER
dict of guilty of assault and battery.
Scene IN the Dead House.-An inquest was
held yesterday at the Charity Hospital, by De-
putty Coroner Terrell, upon the body of the man
who, it may be remembered, fell, on Saturday
last, between two vessels at the foot of Mande-
vile street and was severely crushed The Jury
rendered verdict of death from conclusion Of
the brain.
As everybody is not acquainted with the pro-
cess of taking out and inspecting dead mans
brain, we will explain the manner in which it
was performed in this instance. The corpse, a
strong built, bearded man, was brought in
naked and thrown heavily upon the table The
doctor, COOL prim, neat-looking person, felt
the edge of his knife in business sort of way
and applying it to the centre of the forehead
rapidly described a circle, seVerng the scalp to
the bone as cleverly as an ancient Sachim could
have done when about to possess himself of the
top-knot of an enemy. A thin saw was then
applied to the cash, the point of a chisel in
serted in the opening this made, and with the
aid of hammer the coronal suture was severed,
the upper portion of the Uranium, with its album
dance Of hair, was removed, torn from its place
and thrown upon the foor the dome of
thought, the palace of the SOUL was unroofed
and laid open to the professional eyes Of the
operator
RECORDER WINTERS CouRT-F First District
Andy Hauly was arraigned before this court
yesterday upon affidavit Of Honora Cuff who
charges him with having assaulted her at her
house, at the corner Of st, John the Baptist and
Orange streets, hsrling brickbats and other mis-
siles at her head and Mt her dwelling. and max
ing use of most injurious language. He was
required to give bond for future good behavior
or 60 to the Parish Prison Is days.
Using a Colt-Wm Powers was arrested
night before last for assaulting Hugh Burns
with a colt. He was arraigned yesterday morn
ing and fined $40 for arming himself with
dangerous weapon.
Dismissed. Andrew Henry filed an affidavit
in this court some days ago against Charles
Reynolds sand Mrs. Foley, charging them
with having assaulted and robbed him Of SIS
in a coffee house on Magazine street. The case
came up for examination yesterday, and it APP
peariug that Henry was too drunk at the time
of the alleged robbery to know what he was