SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3476, 14 April 1874, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CRIMINAL SESSION. Tuesday, April 14. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Chapman and a Common Jury.) SENTENCE. Thomas William Perch Honeywell, 41, found guilty yesterday of manslaughter, was brought up for sentence this morning. On being asked what he had to say, prisoner said that there was a third cause of rupture of the womb which had not come out in evidence, as his counsel had dismissed the medical witnesses he (prisoner) had intended to call. These would have stated that deceased might have died from this third cause, and he was sure that when medical men read the reports of the evidence in. the case they would feel great surprise at the verdict returned. His Honor said that if prisoner had required such witnesses to be called it should have been done ; or even if any medical man had stood up in Court and said he could throw light upon the question at issue, he would have directed that his evidence be taken. However, it was too late now, and the only course open to prisoner was to apply to the {Governor, who, as he was no doubt aware, by his prerogatives can remit a sentence and even pardon on proper representations being made to him. Prisoner had better forward a memorial, backed by the opinions of competent medical men, which would doubtless receive consideration. It was not now in his Honor's power to upset the verdict arrived at.

Prisoner said it was not the weight of punishment (whatever sentence he might receive) that oppressed him, nor the sense of guilt. He should await his sentence with the consciousness that the death of Agnes Smith did not lie at his door. His Honor remarked that assuming negligence had been shown by prisoner in attending upon deceased, the offence did not bear with it the elements of manslaughter commuted by an angry, violent person. The sentence of the Court would be that prisoner be kept in prison for six calendar months.

BOBBER JT WITg VIOLENCE. Stephen Tooney was indicted for having on February 18, violently assaulted one William bchmi.lt and stolen from the same the stun of L 3 Os 2d, and a pocket-book valued at 2s, Prisoner pleaded not guilty and was defended by Mr Barton. The Crown Prosecutor stated the case, which was fully reported in our issue of March 16, and the same witnesses (Wm. Schmidt, Jane Henderson, and Constable ”1®) £> a - ve evidence as then reported. The jury returned a verdict of “Not guilty.”

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