The Trial of Richard Patch for the Wilful Murder of Isaac Blight, at Rotherhithe, on the 23rd of September 1805: At the Session House, Newington, Surrey, on Saturday the Fifth of April 1806

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M. Gurney, 1806 - Trials (Murder) - 197 pages

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Page 5 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 5 - Lord 1823, with force and arms, at the parish of Aldenham aforesaid, in the County of Hertford aforesaid, in and upon William Weare, 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 John Thurtell, with a certain pistol of the value of 10*.
Page 6 - Lightfoot then and there instantly died, and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said David Beckett, the said John Lightfoot, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.
Page 161 - ... more satisfactory sort than that which is direct. In some lamentable instances it has been known that a short story has been got by heart by two or three witnesses ; they have been consistent with themselves, they have been consistent with...
Page 5 - 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 one...
Page 162 - ... each other, swearing positively to a fact, which fact has turned out afterwards not to be true. It is almost impossible for a variety of witnesses, speaking to a variety of circumstances, so to concert a story, as to impose upon a jury by a fabrication of that sort, so that where it is cogent, strong, and powerful, where the witnesses do not contradict each other, or do not contradict themselves, it MAY BE evidence more satisfactory than even direct evidence ; and there are more instances than...
Page 6 - ... at the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live ; on which said day of in the year aforesaid, the said M, at the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, of the mortal wound aforesaid, died...
Page 171 - ... correctness small portions of time ; and that if any one were to examine with a watch which marks the seconds, how much longer a space of time a few seconds or a few minutes really are than people in general conceive them to be, they would be surprised : but that in general, when we speak of a minute, or an instant, we can hardly be understood to mean more than that it was a very short space of time...
Page 6 - Wound aforesaid did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said...
Page 197 - William Joyce, the sentence of the Court upon you is, that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison, and thence to a place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead; and that your body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall have been confined before your execution. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.

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