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bec: I knew myself innocent.
“Munshy go & tell them that I have not killed the Chokedar. I will give them nothing.”
I agreed afterwards to give 50 Rs. to the Widow & Children, but refused with indign– to give anything to the Zemindars.

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I summed up the evidence in this cause; and in explaining to the Jury the different species of homicide, and the different legal consequences which result from different species Facti, I made considerable use of the annexed analysis of the case, which my brother Jones took the trouble to draw up for me. I then, amongst other observation on the evidence, said [prout X pa.] The whole of the Trial, including the time of my speaking to the Jury, and about ½ an hour that they employed in consulting together, lasted from 9 o’clock in the morning of Thursday 16 June 1785, to four in the afternoon of Friday the 17th when the jury brought in their verdict, Not guilty of Murder but Guilty of Manslaughter whereupon the Prisoner was burnt in the hand & discharged.