The Trial at Large of William Sparling, and Samuel Martin Colquitt: On an Indictment for the Murder of Edward Grayson : at the Assizes, Held at Lancaster on Wednesday, April 4th 1804

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W. Jones, 1804 - 76 pages
 

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Page 11 - Labourer, not having the fear of God before their Eyes but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil...
Page 1 - ... meet and fight on a precedent quarrel, " and one of them is killed, the other is guilty of murder, and " cannot help himself by alleging that he was first struck by the " deceased, or that he had often declined to meet him, and was " prevailed upon to do it by his importunity, or that it was his...
Page 10 - ... againft the peace of our faid lord the king, his crown, and dignity, and allb againft the form of the ftatute in fuch cafe made and provided.
Page 11 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.
Page 1 - In the first volume of Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown, chapter 31, section 21, I find this passage, " It seems agreed that wherever two persons in cool blood meet and fight on a precedent quarrel, and one of them is killed, the other is guilty of murder, and cannot help himself by alleging that he was first struck by the deceased, or that he had often declined to meet him, and was prevailed upon to do it by his importunity, or that it was his...
Page 1 - An affray may receive an aggravation from its dangerous tendency ; as where persons coolly and deliberately engage in a duel which cannot but be attended with the apparent danger of murder, and is not only an open defiance of the law, but carries with it a direct contempt of the justice of the nation, putting men under the necessity of righting themselves...
Page 10 - Allen the- younger, in the peace of God, and our faid Lord the King, then and there being, felonioufly, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought, did make an aflault, and
Page 12 - ... in the felony and murder aforefaid, in manner and form aforefaid, to do and commit : And fo the jurors aforefaid, upon their oath aforefcid, do fay that the faid perfon, fo to the jurors aforefaid, as. yet unknown, and the faid Edward Quirk, otherwife, &c. the laid GH in manner and form...
Page 11 - August in the forty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
Page 11 - September, in the fifth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Fourth 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...

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