The Sun. — 1822-08-08 (London, England)

CROWN SIDE-MURDER.  James Wiggens was indicted for the wilful murder Of Henry Lilliott,: at Brighton, on the 20th of April last. Mr. ANDRWS conducted the prosecution. It appeared in evidence, that on the day mentioned in the indictrmir, the prisoner and the deceased had set two boys to fight on the beach at Brighton. Some altercation. took place as to the merits of each combatant; mutual reproaches followed, and as soon as the boys had ceased fighting, the pii,;oner attacked the deceased and offered to fight him. The latter being the lighter man of the twO, after a round, in which the deceased got the worst, declined the combat, but still continued to jeer the prisoner upon the subject of a defeat in which he. was beaten by some other man in three rounds, and sad, that if he, the deceased, had more weight he would be a matc'i for him. After provoking- him for some time in this manner, the prisoner fell upon the deceased..knocked him down, and whilst he was on the ground kicked him two or three times between the hip and the back. The deceased being released, lie walked home, apparently not much hurt. • This was on Satuzday. On the Monday following he complained of a pain in. his back, but continued to work for six or seven days afterwards at his business as bricklayer, when he, was obliged to lie in bed, from which he never rose again, and expired on the 2d of May.._ He was examined after death by two surgeons, who stated, that there appeared to be no marks of violence upon the body, either externally or internally, which could produce death. They attributed mortality to a fever produced by excitement of the constitution, in consequence of the blows he hal received.. Between the hips and the region of the kidneys there was the mark of a slight contusion, but not such as would have produCed death: The deceased had been previously in good health.  The prisoner called two or three witnesses to give an account of the transaction, but their evidence did not differ materially from that of the witnesses for the Croirn. _ _  The LORD CHIEF BARON charged the Jury, that they must acquit the prisoner of wilful Murder, there being no evidence of any malice aforethought to sustain that, part of the charge. If, however, they were of opinion that the prisoner had occasioned the death of the deceased, they would be justified in finding him guilty of manslaughter. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of Manslaucler only, and the Learned Judge, afteranimadverting upon the cowardly brutality of the prisoner in kicking the deceased whilst on the ground, the latter being no match for him in self-defence, sentenced him to six months imprisonment in the County Gaol. James Tiltey and David Barnett were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Elizabeth "Watson at Petworth, on the night of the 18th of April, and stealing therein three Chichester and two Arundel Bank notes for the payment of 1/. each, two cannisters, containing a quantity of tea, and a gun her property.; and Henry Leggatt was indicted for receiving the gun, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. CußwooD conducted the Prosecution, and Mr. NORTON the Defence.  The,Jury found all the prisoners Guinn—Death.  On Tuesday week, a true bill was found the LiverPool:Grand Jury against Mr. T. B. Johnson, for a libel on M.S.* M‘Gibbon. The libel charged that lady and several other performers at the Theatre with having e itered into a conspiracy to compel Mr. Vandenhoff to quit the stage ' by unfair and harrassing behaviour towards him.