Worcester, Monday, August...
%A 5AL ,OUURT.-Ueptcsy liar. .Iustsce yknr. David Baker Ash/on, a young man only 22 years of age, was in- dicteil for bigamy. Alr. CROss stated the case for the prosecution. It would be in proof that the prisoner, on the 3d of February, 1822, at Kingswin. tord, in the county of Stafford, married Darcas Vebb. and that having deserted her, he, on the 16th of November, 1823, married Sarah Deely, at Dudley, in Worcestershire. To prove this case, the registcrs of both marriages were put in, and theidentity of the parties proved. The second wife was not caled as a witness, and it was intimated that she had withdrawn in order to avoid giving evidence against the man whom she regard. ed as har husband. Dr. CURWOOD, for the prisoner, asked one of the witnesses to the first marriage whether the wife had not violated her own coniu gal faith, and thus had produced the infidelity of the husband. the? witness answered decided]y in the negative. Mfr. Justice PARIi refused to allew the further prosecution of this inquiry, giving his opinion that it tended only to aggravate the injury which the first wife had already borne. lie then inquiredl whether thte second wife knew of the previouxs marriage; and received a de- cided answer in the affirmative. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of ifuilty. Mr. Justice PAni; said that the prisoner had been guilty of a most heinnus offence against the laws both of God and man. He would certainly have transported him, but for the answer, from which it appeared that the woman whom he had married last knew that his wife was living, and therefore that she had not been de- luded to her ruin. Under all the circumstances of the case, the sen- tence was, that the prisoner should be kept for 12 months to hard la- bour in the House of Correction. The business here int *he CiS-il Cout is very light, except one case of Clander, which exotes considerable local interest. In the Crimic nal Court there is one chargoeof murderl but ehe other cases do not seem to exhibit any particular marks of atrocity. XYORCESTER, MONDAY, AUOUST 2.