The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-10-02 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STIRLING CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY.  The Autumn Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened on Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, by the Right Hon. the Lord Justice-Clerk and the Hon. Lord Wood, E. F. Maitland, Esq., Advocate-Depute; James Aitken, Esq., Clerk.  The first case called was that of (1) Helen Armstrong, accmed of the theft of four shifts, belonging to various parties from a green or piece of ground opposite or mar to the Dumbarton Road, at Albert Place, aggravated by four previous convictions of theft. Panel pleaded not guilty. A jury having been empannelled, and proof led, the Lord Justice-Clerk summed up the evidence. The jury unanimously found the accused guilty as libelled. Sentence— seven years' transportation._ _  2. jean Braid, orr Barr, or Nimrao, from Kilsyth, charged with the crime of murder; as also culpable homicide, as also the wilfully, wickedly, and feloniously causing or procuring a pregnant woman to abort, &e. &c. Panel pleaded guilty as libelled, excepting to the charge of murder, and after some certificates as to her character were read, and the Court addressed by Mr. Scott, her counsel, in mitigation of punishment, and a most impressive admonition from Lord Wood, was sentenced to ten years transportation. Agent: Mr. Alexander Monteith, writer, Stirling. 3. Daniel Dailly. charged under the section 12th of the act 2d William IV., cap. 34, with buying a quantity of false or counterfeit coins, resembling penny and halfpenny pieces at a lower rate or value than the said coins imported, or were coined, or counterfeited for, from eight different individuals in Stirling, on the 25th July hug, pleaded guilty to the first four charges. The Lord Justice-Clerk, in consequence of the novelty of the case, the prisoner's apparent ignorance of the statute, and the highly respectable character which he bore, restricted the sentence to two months' imprisonment. Counsel: W. G. Tytler, Esq., advocate. Agent: Mr. John Davidson. writer. 4. Hamilton Mitchell and Margaret M‘Lachlatt or Mitchell, his wife, charged with the crime of theft, as also reset of theft, aggravated on the part of the party first named by his being habit and repute a thief, and having been twic • previously convicted of theft, in so far as, on the 19th or 20th of April last, they did steal from the pockets of a person from Perthshire, a silver watch and a number of other articles, and a sum of money ; or otherwise having resetted the property stolen. Panels pled not guilty. After evidence was led, the jury unanimously found the panels guilty of the theft of the watch as libelled, aggravated on the part of the first-named party as libelled. The male prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation, and the female prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment. [The above Hamilton Mitchell is a notorious character, and well known in Stirling by the cognomen of" The Brander Maker."] 5. Alexander M'Kenzie, charged with the theft of a hen from a farm in the parish of Muiravonside, aggravated by his having been five times previously convicted of theft. pleaded not guilty. After the examination of witnesses, Lord Wood summed up the evidence, and the jury found the panel guilty as libelled. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years.  s.Mary, unn, accused of theft, aggravated by 5 previous convictions, she having, on Bth June last, stolen a shawl or napkin from off a badge near Surnfoot, in the parish of Falkirk, pleaded not guilty, and the case went to trill. She was found guilty, and sentence of transportation for seven years was pronounced. 7. John O'Donnal or O'Donell, prisoner in Alloa prison, pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape or assault, with intent to ravish. The case was conducted with closed doors. After evidence was led, the jury unanimously found the accused guilty of rape as libelled, and he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation.  An appeal at the instance of John Lamb, farmer, Knockinshannoch, parish of Drymen, against Thomas Graham, younger of Ba!funning, collector "for the Statute Labour Road Trustees for Western Stirlingshire, and acting on their behalf," was called and dismissed with expenses, in respect the appeal was not served within ten days after the judgment complained of was pronounced, the same having been given in the Sheriff Small Debt Court, at Balfron, on nth June last,  , The appeal was prepared and lodged by the appellant himself.  Counsel for Appellant: John Graham, Esq. Agent; Jas. Miller, writer, Stirling. Counsel for Respondent • W. G. Tytler, Esq. Agents: Messrs Hill, Cathcart, and Davidson. This finished the business of the Court.