The Sun. — 1806-08-02 (London, England)

CROWN, SIDE.  Mr. justice HEATH finiShed on the CroWn Side yesterday evening. There were several elfarges of Murder in the Calendar, but the Grand Jury threw out all the bills, and the. parties were arraigned on the COroners' Inquests. Jonima Gibbons was arraigned for the murder .of her bastard Child, by leaving it exposed, on the 19th of March last, in the open fields, from Which exposure, and want of sustenance, it was alledged to 'have died.  Samuel Fernham and James Storer, twri labour.ing men, stated, that on coming home from their Work, theY found a dead child in the ditch by the side of a field. It was laying. on its back, with its hand open, and was Wrapped, up in a piece of .woollen cloth, apparently the -remains olan . old petticoat. They buried:it just within the ground, ,t 9 keep it from the dogs, and .gave notice to The 'parish ogcers.' It" lay there from the Friday to the Monday before it was taken up again. -The Learned Judge direEted the Jury to acquit the Prisoner, as,there was no proof of the child haying been born alive • John Ajcorse was arraigned on the Coroner's InAttest, for Manslaughter, in killing 'William Lee,. 'by throwing 4itifinto.the Thames, whereby he was drowned.  Henry Hale deposed, that the-Prisoner, himself, -and the deceased,, sailed together on board a boy, -called the Maidstone, on the lath of March ; the `Prisoner and the deceased had a quarrel, the deceased being in liquor, and froin words they pro'ceeded to blows., In the scuffle, the deceased acci'dentally- •feli • over-heard. The Prisoner itutne-' -diately hollowed to the witness, that the deceased, was over-board, and begged him td get the 'boat out as soon as .possible, which lie did, but he could not save him, for he NOSS unfortunately drowned.  The Jury found the Prisoner—Not Guilty. • Thomas rtorriek was charged,-On Coroner'slnquest, with killing and slaying Divers Lee,on the 1 4th of June, in.the pariSfi of Ashford. The Prisoner was 'a soldier, and,, on, the 14th of June, from drinking with some countrymen,"got, intoa boxing match, and the deceased, Lee, was second to -Cis antagonist, who was a travelling eNainey-sweeper. After the battle, the Prisoner wished -to withdraw, and give in ; but , the byetitanders would:. not permit ,him, and said it was a shame for a soldier to be beat by a sweep: A general quarrel ensued, in which other, soldiers took the part oltheir comrade, and the deceased, Lee, was knocked down, but not by the Prisoner. When he was down, the Prisoner Jumped upon his body, and he died in ten minutes'afterwards. •  The Learned Judge, had dire&ed the Jury to find the Prisoner guilty of manslabgter, when the Surgeon, who had examined the body of the deceased, came into Court, and stated, that the deceased did not die of ,thoblows on the body, but from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the head.  The Learned Judge immediately dire6led the Airy to acquit the Prisoner, as there was no proof of his having.given the deceased any blow on theltead.— Verdidt—Not Guilty. . , John (Yemenis and Rich(lrd Lurford were charged with killing and slaying William Basset, on the 10th of JUne, at Mereworth. Mr. GURNEY, for the Prosecution, stated, that the day on which the deceased came by his death, was one on which-Lord Le Despencer gave. a dinner to Kis .tenants, on payment of. their rent. One of. the Prisoners was Gamekeeper to his Lordship, and the deceased came into the room to accompany home one of the tenants, who wasdining With the party. It was thought by some that the deceased was not tit company for" the party, and he was desired to withdraw ; he did so, and the Prisoners followed him.— What passed he could not t=eily say; but they got to fighting, and. in about ten minutes the deceaSed expired: -From a negle& of the Coroner, '7.-16 Sur-aeon was called in ; but he should call witnesses to prove, that he had, about the back and loins, the. marks of many Severe blowS, Which appeared to. have been caused by kickitig "br greater violence than con,ld be used by the hand. He ought also to state; that the body was 'not taken up for insPedioa until several days after the accident, whea it was too, putrid to ascertain the cause of death: -The Learned Judge held it indispensible to have the evidence of a Stwgeon ; , and alluded' to the last case, where the man had niarly.been convicted; but upon the Surgeon's evidence was acquitted: . The Jury found the Prisoners Not Guilty.