The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-04-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

JAMES.  This was elm an action of ejectment to recover a piece of land under a will. A verdict wee given for the plaintiff. Mr. Cole was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Kandake for the defendant. (Before Mr. SLADit, Q.C.) "• " " '  Henry Cave and Joshua Hicks were indicted for high• way robbery, with violence, at Wrasafl, on the night of the 22nd of December last. Mr. Bailey conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Stone defended the prisoners. It appeared that the prosecutor, Samuel Freeman, who was an attendant at the Longwood-house Lunatic Asylum, in Long Ashton, near Bristol, left Longwoodhouse about quarter before 6 in the evening of the 22nd of December last to go to see his brother, who lived at WraxaU, • village near there, and about 6 o'clock, when be had walked a mile on the road, Cave came out from • hedge at the side of the road, and with a large stick struck him across the bead. It did not stun him, but knocked his hat off. Freeman thereupon screamed "Murder !" when immediately Hicks and another man sprang out from the hedge, one seising him on one aide and the other on the other. The three men then dragged him to the side of the road, turned his pockets inside out, and finding only sinus letters, keys, and postage' stamps, and a penknife, cried out, "Where is it —where is it r The prosecutor replied that he had no money at all with him, or he would give it to them. They then kicked him and left him. There appeared a good deal of blood about the road. He gave information and a description of the dress and general appearance of the men to the police. About half-past 5 o'clock the same night a boy saw the two prisoners together near where the violence was half-an-hour after con 'tied. Hu had some conversation with them, and he also subso/neatly gave • description of the same men to the police. From the description given of the prisoners they were apprehended on the Sunday following, and in the presence of others, the two prisoners were selected and identified by the prosecutor. The boy also saw and identified both, ail the men he had seen together near the place, and about half-an-hour before, where the robbery and violence were committed. Mr. Stone addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner', and contended that their identity on the part of the prosecution was not distinctly proved; that be should, he was instructed clearly prove an ; that neither of the prisoners was at the place in question at the tune mentioned; and that the prosecutor was, as miler the circumstances he well might be, mistaken as to the identity of the primates with the persons who assaulted him. Hs called the wife of a beerhouse.  keeper where the prisoners lodged, and another woman, who said she assisted her ; the latter stated that both prisoneni were at home at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 22nd of December. and the other said she retunied home about half -past 6 that night, both prisoners had then nearly finished sm.per, and appeared to are been home seine time; they remained at house the whole evening afterwards. Mr. Dailey having replied. The learned Judge summed up. The jury having found the prisoners Guilty, , His Lordship said be quito concurred in the verdict, awl it appeared to him to he a,serious a case that he should sentence the prisoners to eight years' penal servitude. Civil. Sim—Before Mr. Baron