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commission, the prisoner was in a 

 state of mind to distinguish right 

 from wrong, or under the influence 

 of any illusion towards the parti- 

 cular object which rendered him 

 for the moment insensible to the 

 nature of the act he was about to 

 commit ; for if he was so influ- 

 enced, he could not be deemed re- 

 sponsible to the law ; otherwise, 

 it would be their duty to find him 

 guilty. 



Thejury, after deliberating some 

 time, returned a verdict of guilty. 



The unhappy man was after- 

 wards executed for his crime, hav- 

 ing to the last buoyed himself up 

 with the hope of a pardon. 



Case of Assault. — Mr. John 

 Maberly and W. Dean, the former 

 a respectable attorney, and the 

 latter a constable, were indicted 

 for assaulting Elizabeth Tadell, on 

 the 16th of May last.— Mr. Alley, 

 in opening the case, bore testimony 

 to the general character of Mr, M. 

 until the commission of the offence 

 with which he now stood charged, 

 which he could not help pronounc- 

 ing to be of a most aggravated de- 

 Bcription. The counsel then pro- 

 ceeded to state, that the prosecu- 

 trix (who was a young and inter- 

 esting looking woman), was, on 

 the day stated in the indictment, 

 servant to Mrs. Conyer, who lived 

 at No. A, Park-lane. About four 

 o'clock, during the absence of her 

 mistress, who had just gone out to 

 take an airing in her carriage, the 

 two defendants, in company with 

 four other men, came to the house, 

 and Mr. M. demanded that certain 

 pictures, which were in the room, 

 should he deliveredinto his posses- 

 ■ion, for Mr. Conyer, the husband 

 of the lady in whose house the 



plaintiff lived. Mr. Alley here 

 stated, that a separation had taken 

 place between Mr. and Mrs. Con- 

 yer, and that they kept separate 

 establishments ; but Mr. Conyer 

 having some fancy for the pictures 

 alluded to, had sent his attorney 

 to demand them in the manner he 

 had mentioned. The prosecutrix, 

 having no knowledge of the de- 

 fendants, or of Mr. Conyer, said 

 she did not feel herself authorised 

 to deliver any property under her 

 care to any person, until the return 

 of her mistress, whom she expect- 

 ed every moment ; and to expedite 

 whose arrival, she sent another 

 servant girl, who was in the house. 

 Mr. M. however, insisted upon 

 taking the pictures, and was pro- 

 ceeding to enter the room in which 

 they were, when the prosecutrix 

 shut the door, locked it, and kept 

 the key in her hand. Mr. M. 

 then sent for a carpenter, to force 

 the door; but his patience being 

 exhausted before his arrival, he 

 said it would be easier and better 

 to take the key from the woman, 

 and immediately Dean seized her 

 by the wrist, and Mr. M. wrenched 

 the key from her hand, in doing 

 which he severely injured her 

 lingers, which bled profusely ; her 

 arm and side were also much bruis- 

 ed. The pictures were then carried 

 off, and the prosecutrix was left to 

 make the best of her tale to her 

 mistress. 



These facts were proved by the 

 evidence of the prosecutrix herself, 

 and of Eleanor Tunstan, who wit- 

 nessed the transaction. Mr. Rey- 

 nolds, for the defendant, contend- 

 ed, that no assault had been com- 

 mitted ; that Mr. M. was acting 

 under the authority of Mr. Conyer, 

 legally given ; and that the prose- 

 cutrix. 



