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1777. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 22.

Murder, because the solicitation mention’d, was not of such a nature, and attended with such force, as that he could not otherwise, avoid having the crime committed on him by Devasahey, than by killing him: and because if this were not true and the other part of his Story were true, that he call’d him by an obprobious name, yet then too, it would be a confession of the Crime of Murder, for opprobrious words are not a justification of Murder. The Jury deliberated a very short time and brought in their
Verdict – Guilty.
The Judgment was pronounced by Impey immediately for his execution on Wednesday being the day before Christmass day. Impey in the speech to Golam Hyder before pronouncing Judgment, told him he would not delude him with groundless hopes of any Mercy to be shewn to him on Earth, but for the sake of Justice to the world, and for the good of his own Soul that he might obtain Mercy from God, in a future state, he ought to tell who they were that instigated him to commit the Murder, if there were
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