The Sun. — 1826-09-19 (London, England)

BARRV—ThiI was of pot of beethe prisoner for thirty years; I partook on Monday in the r with him on that. ay ;he was intoxicated prisoner evening,scok but was not so when I left him. The e first in a friend y Inann6, when he and deceased met; he spoke thing but one ti • 'r; deceased answered, " you are every thin;;; • deceasedshowed used the word jannock deceased to go awa;owedlight, Prisoner in fact, desired "d was called back by decoßetl.-The parties were not deceased fell the last tirZar enough the curb stone when c, for deceas ed's head to have struck the stone.  George Pawn—l saw the prisoner and deceased on the  night in question; deceased approached the prisoner in a fighting attitude ; atilt faltieLutruck the month, who immediately fell wits head on the curb-stone. I lieard4tlie44l-forty- yards..off I caree.iffiao Alit deceased; I tlrefewOnt4o the prisoner • and saidozbulave done the (laid 4mtl-must -wnswtrvfor -ileCesseci-4a*-iinmediately taken to the hospital; prisoner very calmly saio, "had we not better gri to the ltttsprtil, to spe• how Nicholas was.— . We Nvel4 togetll4;" rgaVe hiWaltd-tristody. Cross-examined—When We got to the hospital, deceased was bleeding. The prisoner seemed to regret what had happened, and to,feel for the situation of the deceased. I did not know either of the parties. I have ascertained since that, they were known to each other. Deceased had not the power of striking prisoner after I saw them, he having been knocked down at that time. Did not hear prisoner say, if that's what you want, come on! William Westwood was present when the affray took place. Deceased struck at the prisoner across my arm twice before prisoner struck him. Prisoner kocked deceased down by the blow on the mouth. My, opinion is, that deceased's intention was to fight. • Other witnesses were called, who corroborated the above statements. .  The prisoner being now called on for his defence, put in a written paper, which stated, that on the night in question having met deceased, and knowing him, he said, " Is that you, old boy? I see you have got your load, and you had better make the best of your way home." Deceased then said, " You are every thing but one—you are not jannock," meaning, you are not good in every respect; and deceased struck him twice on the breast. Thinking was in joke, be went away, as somebody advised him, without taking further notice of him. Deceased ibllowed him, and hit him twice more on the neck. He turned round, and asked if he was in earnest; deceased said yes, and then he invited him on to the road, off the pavement. When they got there deceased attempted to strike, but he (prisoner) knocked him down. He had no animosity towards deceased, was sorry for what had happened; never had any intention seriously to hurt him ; had been in the army for eight years, and an honest workman for twenty years, and had a wife and family wholly dependent on his exertions ; his wife saw deceased on the following day in the Hospital, who told her that he was sorry for prisoner's confinement, as he himself had been wholly to blame. Two witnesses were called, with one of whom prisoner had worked seven years and a half, and the other had known him for fourteen, years. They gave him an excellent character.  Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, in summing up, thought the Jury ought at once to discharge the prisoner from the capital charge in the indictment of murder ; but that it would be for them to consider whether, upon the whole of the evidence, the prisoner was guilty of manslaughter. —The provocation had clearly been given in the first instance by the deceased, but the law did not authorise a man to do as the prisoner had done. The Jury retired for 10 minutes, and then returned a verdict of Kot Guilty.