TRIAL OF RICHARD PATCH FOR THE WILFUL MURDER OF ISAAC BLIGHT. At the Lent Assizes for the County of Surry, holden at Kingston, before the Right Honorable Sir Archibald Macdonald, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer; and the Honorable John Heath, Esquire, one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, the Grand Jury found a Bill of Indictment against Richard Patch, for the wilful Murder of Isaac Blight. The Trial was appointed to take place at the Session House, at Newington, on Saturday the 5th of April. SESSION HOUSE, NEWINGTON, Saturday, April 5, 1806. Before the Right Honorable SIR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer. The Court being opened, and Richard Patch set to the Bar, he was arraigned on the Indictment, to which he pleaded not guilty. Then the Pannel returned by the High Sheriff was called over, and the following were sworn THE JURY. CHARLES SMITH, of Merton. JOHN WEDGE, of Wandsworth. THOMAS BARTLETT, of Merton. GEORGE MOORE, of Putney. GEORGE SMITH, of Putney. DANIEL LANGTON, of Wandsworth. Mr. KNAPP, the Clerk of Arraigns, charged the JURY with the Prisoner, in the usual form, on the following Indictment. THE INDICTMENT. SURREY-The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that Richard Patch late of the Parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey Labourer not having the Fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the twenty-third Day of September in the forty fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and. Ireland King Defender of the Faith with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon Isaac Blight in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did make an Assault and that the said Richard Patch a certain Pistol of the Value of Five Shillings loaded with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet which he the said Richard Patch then and there had and held in his right Hand to at and against the said Isaac Blight did then and there feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought shoot off and discharge and that the said Richard Patch with the leaden Bullet aforesaid out of the said Pistol so shot off and discharged by him the said Richard Patch as aforesaid him the said Isaac Blight in and upon the right Side of the Body of him the said Isaac Blight did then and there feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought strike penetrate and wound giving to him the said Isaac Blight then and there by such striking penetrating and wounding of him the said Isaac Blight with the leaden Bullet aforesaid out of the said Pistol so shot off and discharged by him the said Richard Patch as aforesaid one mortal Wound in and upon the right Side of the Body of him the said Isaac Blight of the width of one Inch and of the Depth of ten Inches of which said mortal Wound the said Isaac Blight from the said twenty third Day of September in the Year aforesaid until the twenty-fourth Day of same Month of September in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which twenty-fourth Day of September in the Year aforesaid the said Isaac Blight at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the mortal Wound aforesaid did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Patch him the said Isaac Blight in Manner and Form aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did kill and murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity |