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Wilfully & of malice afore thought made an assault on one Mahomd Jummah in Calcutta; and it is charged that the Prisoner did feloniously &c strike & thrust the said M. Jummah with a knife on the right side of his belly, between the short ribs giving him a mortal wound, of which the languished from 20 May 1786 to the 9th of June & then died, and so the jurors say that Prisoner did fel:y, wilfully, & of mal: aforetht, kill & murder the sd Mahomd Jummah and further that Prisoner is subject to the Jurisdon of the Court by having comd sd fely & murder in the Town of Calcutta.
Plea Not Guilty.
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