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backed out of the bargain after his
wife bad disappeared. The woman was
got out, but life was quite extinct
When brought before the magistrate
the prisoner made a statement to the
effect that he bad had a great deal of
trouble with his wife to prevent her
from drowning herself. She said she
was determined to drown herself, and
be said if she did be would. His Lord
ship told the jury that two persons
might agree to commit suicide, and one
of them, in tbe faith that the other was
doing tbe same thing, succeed in the
act This, by a rule of law, was willful
I nnf,1 Rnt if th iila of the aninida
emanated from the deceased, as in this
case it seemed to have done, and if they
believed that tbe survivor had not aided
and abetted in the act which caused
the prisoner's death, then they would
fiad the prisoner not guilty. On the
other hand, if they believed that the
prisoner Lad by any means been acces
ceasory to the deceased's death by s
proposal from himself to commit sui
cide, it was their duty to find him
ffniltv of willful murder. The
jury
I returned a verdict of not guilty.
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