The Sun. — 1850-03-07 (London, England)

WILDE.) John Livings, 26, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding his wife, Susan Livings, with intent to murder her. In other counts his intent was laid to be to do some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parnell defended the prisoner. Susan Wood deposed that in September last she lived in the same house with the prisoner and his wife, at High Ongar. On the day named in the indictment, the 10th of September, the prisoner was in the garden with the prosecutrix, and they were engaged in digging up potatoes, when a quarrel took place between them, and she saw the prisoner strike his wife a violent blow on the eye with a spade, and she fell to the ground, and while she was in that position the prisoner kicked her several times in the stomach. Shortly afterwards witness saw the prosecutrix at a cottage close by, and she observed a good deal of blood upon her clothes. Upon being cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL, the witness said she was not near enough to bear what was said before the prisoner knocked his wife down. They frequently quarrelled on account of the prosecutrix having an improper intimacy. with another man. She had no doubt that a connexion of that sort existed, because she had seen the wife of the prisoner and the man of whom he was jealous in bed together. The witness also said that the prisoner had always acted as a good husband until this improper intimacy was found out.  Emma Cone', a cottager living near the prisoner, proved that while the prosecutrix was in her house the prisoner came there, and after making use of very violent language, he dragged her into the road and kicked her several times.  Mr. W. R. Gill, a surgeon at High Ongar, stated that he was called in to examine the prosecutrix, and he found her clothes saturated with blood, and that she had received a very severe blow on the right eye. She was delivered of a dead child on the 6th of November.  MC. PARNELL, in addressing the jury for )01t prib. soner, complained that his wife had not been called to inform the jury of the circumstance which had led to the assault upon the day in question, t' he said that in her absence they had no means of knowing what provocation the prisoner had received at the time. He urged upon the jury that it was perf_•ctly clear the prisoner bad been deeply wronged by his wife, and he called upon them to make allowance for the provocation he had received, and only find him guilty of an assault.  The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty of a common assault, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months.  MIDLAND Cll?CUlP.—Northampton, March 6. (Before Mr. Hustraar, Q.C.) Thomas Band, aged 30, labourer, was indicted for having, on the 20th of January last, at Aidwinkle, All Saints, in this county, feloniously cut and wounded one William Wills, with intent to , maim, disable, or disfigure Lim, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Miller conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Mellor the defence.  The prosecutor, William Will, was a keeper or watcher, in the service of Lord LiWord, and the assault was committed on him whilst in the execution of his duty.  An attempt was made to prove an alibi, but The Learned JUDGE told the jury very emphatically, that the only question for them was, whether or not they were satisfied as to the identity of the prisoner as being the man spoken to by the two witnesses for the prosecution; and he would entreat them not to violate their consciences and the oaths they had taken by finding any other verdict than that which before God they believed to be the true one. A verdict of Guilty, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was, after the lapse of some time, returned ; and a previous conviction for felony (stealing fowls) having been proved against the prisoner, The Learned JUDGE remarked, that after a long and patient investigation, the jury had at last come to the only conclusion that, in his judgment, they could have arrived at ; and observing upon the atrocious extent of the violence and recklessness of human suffering and human life exhibited, passed upon the prisoner the sentence of transportation for ten years.  WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, March 6, (Before FRANCIS BATLEY, Esq., Judge.)