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what might be his motive for such an Act.
The prisoner and Serjt Dogharty had messed together for some time before this fact was committed, and the woman used to eat with them; but I never saw any familiarities between the prisr and the woman nor do I know of any quarrel that prisoner had either with the woman or with Dogharty.
The prisoner being a corporal in in the same battalion with me I have constantly seen him do duty as such, and he was stationed in the Barrack at the time of committing the fact as a Corporal in the Company’s Service.

The Prisoner asks no questions.

In answer to questions from the Jury the Witness says. – All the time of my knowing the prisoner he has appeared to me to be in his right senses. I never heard of his being otherwise or had any reason to think him out of his senses.
He walked steadily at the time of committing the fact and did not appear to be drunk.
When he came up to the woman, he did not speak to her; at least I did not hear his voice, and I must have heard it unless he spoke extremely low.
I saw the stab in the woman’s breast