Summer Assizes.
* - olr nme CIly closed this day Oai the Crown side, Garret* Harling was indicted (in company with twoother persons) for steatling a considerable quantity of born. basins. There was no interest whatever in the details of the trial, but a point oF law arose, uron which judgment eventually was respited- John Lane was called to prove an admissiott by Harling of thie robbery in question, anti also to show that pat of the goods which were stolen had been trantferred to reCeivers l but Lane hiniself, it appeared, had been indicted as an accomplice in the same transace tion atfer the fact and he stood f&rther in the predicament of havy i g been found guilty ef a previous larceny, fbr which he was sen- tenced to a term of imprisonment not yet fully expired. Under these ciratetatances the counsel for Harling objected to Lane's evidence lie being, ii fact, not a freeman, but already suf- fering under the penalty of the law. The counsel for the p.-osecution Agreed to withdraw himn; but they then proceeded to put his wife into the bom. Lane's wife. hoevever, in her turn, waa now denied to be a com- petent witness; for it was said, that if she was ekamined, sate, in fact, proved her husband an accomplice in the present robbery. The prosecutor replied that she did not sWnd irn that situation her husband had aIlready admitted his guilt, and she was calleA onlv to confirm Ins general testimony. The counsel for the prisoner insisted that nevertheless her evi- deuce wasR inadmissible; and Alr. Justice 6.tSELEE gaia, tlat ha doubted very much whiether it could be received. Lape himself wits then again called, a note being taken of the ob. jections to his competency.; and his wife, being afterwards exa- mined, confirmed what lie stated. rhe trial was proceeded in., and Harling, in conclusion, was found guilty. Air. Justice GASELEE, however, respited sentence until the opinion of the twelve Judges was known as to tbe admissib-lity of Lane as a witness. His own present %iew was against the reception of evidence; but thete was a peculiarity in the forn of Lane's sen- tence which would have to be considered. SUMMElfR ASSIZES. _. NORWICH. Mmnv. A if,