Mr Justice Chamberlain then told the jury that the present prosecution was the most unfounded and unsupported of any that had ever appeared. That there was not a tittle of evidence to support it; that on the contrary the very evidence produced by the Crown, proved the very reverse of the charge brought forward.

Mr Dobbs then on behalf of the traverser declared he hardly knew what he ought to say, after such a prosecution, acquittal was out of the question, for conviction was impossible. But in such a business it was necessary to say something that might go along with that acquittal, to satisfy the public of the… Continue reading Indictment IV