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1777. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 22.

Rupees, and a Gold Necklace worth at least Eight Hundred Rupees, and had also a Watch, but none of those things were taken away. It seems therefore as if it were not with Intention to rob that he had murder’d, and therefore, and from other circumstances Mr. William Chambers suspects Golam Alli was hired by some Person to commit the Murder. But I think the intention might be to rob, and Deyvasahey not instantly dying but having strength enough to get up from his bed, and go out of his room as it appear’d in evidence he did, the Prisoner might think the other man who laid in the same house might be alarm’d, and therefore he was afraid to stay to robb Deyvasahey.
The Evidence was very strong circumstantial evidence of the Guilt of the Prisoner, independent of any confession, and we all three agreed in opinion, and so Impey directed the Jury, that taking all this confession, as made before me togather, and supposing it all true, it was a Confession on which the Prisoner ought to be found Guilty
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