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1778. Sessions. Saturday Dec. 12th.

Saturday Dec. 12th: 1778.
Present
Sir E. Impey
Sir Robert Chambers
&
Mr. Justice Hyde
[Triple Line]

Rex
v
Cuttub Consumar.
An Indictment for a Rape on Counchillee.
Acquitted.
The jury, and the Court, thought it plain the woman had been guilty of Adultery, and had been lain with by her own Consent, by the Prisoner, but on being discover’d had made a false accusation of Rape.
It had appear’d the same to me, on my hearing the woman first charge the Man, and therefore I had only charged him with an assault, in the commitment.
[Triple Line]

Rex
v
Walter Sharpe.
An Indictment, for the Murder, of Shrubdee.
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