Star. — 1826-07-08 (London, England)

WOOD AND JANI22. This was an action to recover compensition in darn triages for a libel, priblished by the defendant% in a newspaper called the Huntingdon, Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Weekly Journal. The plaintiff is an attorney of c snsiderahle practice in this county, and is also clerk to certain Justices of the Peace. The libel imputed vlri•lus malpractices to Mr. Sherard, and particularly stated that he ap; ropriated certain penalties to his own use and profit which should have gone to the po r of the pa, ish. The defendants pleaded a justification, but called no witnesses to support their plea. Mr. Heaven, for the defendants, admitted that no ground existed for the imputation cast upon the plaintiff.; and Mr. Cf..% RIM for the plaintiff, said he was satisfied to take a nominal verdict, accompanied with the apology of his Learned Friend. • • . Verdict for the plaintiff—Danmges Is.; costs 40s. OXFORD, ;rice 7. James Arnett was indicted for wilfully and maliciously murdering Thomas Maley, by firing at and against him a Certain gun loaded with gunpowder and leaden shot, at Ensham, in this county, on the 17th of April last. Mr. CURWOOD said it was his melancholy task to de-. tail to the Jury the circumstances of the case, in which the prisoner was charged with an offence, not only by the law of England, but by the law of all other nations, and by the law of GOD, pronounced in thunder from Mount Sinai, ranked as the deepest and the blackest in the catalogue of human offences. The Learned Counsel then went on with a statement of the facts, with a remark that in his judgment the present was but a case of manslaughter. Charlotte Smith was then called, and stated th it she lived at Ensham, in this county. She remembered the 17th of April last, and on the evening of that day, at a little after eight o'clock, she was opposite the pri sorter's house, who was a respectable farmer at Ensham. There were a great many persons near the house at the time, and among them the deceased. She heard ia Murder" cried in the hon,e. Mrs. Arnett, the pri soner's wife, presented herself at the down-stairs room window, and cried out, "Do pray come in, or I shall be murdered to-night." She requested tie deceased. Thomas Maley, particularly to go in. The deceased Maley then got over the pales, and took the key of the little gates from Mrs. Arnett. He came back, and unlocked the gates, and others Went in also. The deceased entered at a window, which Mrs. Arnett pushed up, while she had a candle in her hand. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Pease—lt was dark at this time, and there were a good many people in the street; but I did not heat any of them use any galling or jeering expressions to the deceased. He is at times-irritable, but at others a very kind and good-natured man. Mary Ana Smith, the sister al the last witness, corroborated her evidence. • Several other witnesses were called, who proved that the prisoner fired' through the kitchen door after the deceased had uttered, and shot him dead. At the time the prisoner 6-red, a woman was pulling him .back by the collar, and the prisoner's face was not towards the dole through which he fired. The Aram then summed up the evidence, after which the Jury retired from the body of the Court about ten minutes, and returned a verdict—Net Guilty ?Murder—Guilty e Mandasigker. The prisoner thanked the Jury.—To be imprisoned 12 calendar months.