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and a person subject to the Jurisdiction of this Court indicted for the willful murder of a woman named Mauggey at Dinapore in the Province of Bahar by [stabbing] her with a Bayonet on the left side of the Belly. The Prisoner pleaded not guilty to the indictment, on that [plea] issue was joined and on the trial the several Witnesses deposed to this effect.

First Witness for the King
George Stewart. – I am a Corporal in the sixth European Battalion in the East India Company’s Service.
I know the prisoner at the Bar & I knew the woman whom he is charged to have killed, but I did not know her name. I saw her body after her death.
The prisoner at the time of her death, and for many months before, was a corporal in the East India’s Company’s Service, in the same Battalion with me. I have heard the Prisoner say he was an Englishman.
On the thirteenth of June last I [ILL] the prisoner come along the Barrack with a naked Bayonet in his hand. He held it with his right hand under his left arm pit. He walked gently up to [the?] woman who was sitting on a low stool and stab[ed her?]