Middlesex, Sheriff of, Rex v. Page 532 Rex v. Calow, Inhabitants of Page 22 Middleton v. Bryan 155 v. Lord Cochrane 10. n. Minster, Inhabitants of, Rex v. Moir v. Royal Exchange Assu peal, Excise 133 rance Molling v. Buckholtz -153 v. De Berenger 67 v. Dixon 11 Moss, Smith v. Mountsorrel, Inhabitants of, Rex v. 497 N v. Hertfordshire, Justices of 459 Nicholson, Blake v. 167 v. Kerrison 526 North Duffield, Inhabitants of, Rex v. 247 v. Middlesex, Sheriff of, 299 v. Same 532 v. Minster, Inhabitants of 276 v. Mountsorrel, Inhabi tants of 497 247 v. Pierce 127 P v. Taunton, St. Mary 465 v. York, West Riding, Inhabitants of 493 Perkins, Doe v. 271 Reynolds, Quin v. 144 Phillips v. Price 180 Ridsdale v. Newnham 456 Pickstock v. Lyster 371 Roberts v. Hardy 532 Pierce, Rex v. 127 Roe v. Daw 518 Pitcher, Doe v. Plumer, Taylor v. Plummer v. Wildman Pocock v. Carpenter Poland, Molling v. Pole, Glossop v. 407 Rowe, Bishop v. 362 562 482 Royal Exchange Assurance, 461 109 Roylance v. Hewling 282 157 175 Potts, Curtis v. Power v. Walker 7 Prentice, Cox v. Price, Phillips v. 180 Doe v. 300 Hulman v. 337 Scroggs, Masters v. 447 Q Shapland, Taylor v. 328 Quin v. Reynolds Smailes v. Wright 559 144 Smedley v. Gooden 189 Smith v. Moss 15 Sowerby, Read v. 78 R Stewart, Foster v. 191 Storer v. Gordon Ramsbotham, Doe v. 308 516 Read v. Sowerby Sutton, Hughes v. 178 78 Rendle, Doe v. 99 Rex v. Askew v. Beaulieu. Inhabitants of 229 v. Billingshurst, Inhabi tants of 250 --, Impey v. 166 v. Bray, Inhabitants of 20 v. Plumer v. Burton-upon-Trent, Inhabitants of 562 v. Shapland 328 537 Taunton, St Mary, Rex v. 465 CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, IN Trinity Term, In the Fifty-Fourth Year of the Reign of GEORGE III. 1814. BENNET and Wife against WATSON and Another. Saturday, June 11th. A the peace mit a feme is a material upon a (the charge of felony fore him, refuses to appear at TRESPASS for assault and imprisonment of the justice of wife. Plea, Not guilty. At the trial before may comThomson C. B. at the last assizes for Kent, the covert who case was this: the defendant Watson was a ma- witness, gistrate residing at Woolwich, and Newhall other defendant,) a constable of that place. On brought bes the 1st of January 1813 a person having been and who apprehended on suspicion of felony, and carried before Watson, the plaintiff's wife was examined to give evias a witness against the prisoner, and after her find sureties examination, was desired by Watson to procure pearance. her husband's recognizance for her appearance at the next quarter sessions; to which she said that she could not procure it that day, but the next day her husband or somebody else should the sessions dence, or to for her ap 1814. enter into the recognizance. Upon this promise, she was suffered to depart, but not keeping her against word, on the 13th of January following was Watson. sent for by Watson, who again requested her to Bennet procure her husband or some other person to be surety for her appearance to give evidence at Maidstone, where the sessions were to be holden; to which she answered that she would not go, and nobody should make her. The matter was then explained to her fully; and an hour or was employed in endeavouring to persuade her; but she continuing to refuse, was at last told that a warrant would be signed if she refused; and on her still refusing the warrant was signed. She was not, however, taken into custody that night; but by leave of the magistrate slept in her own house, and on the next day was conveyed by Newhall inside the coach to Maidstone, where (on the 15th) she gave evidence, and the prisoner was convicted; and without her evidence he could not have been convicted. The warrant was directed to the constable of Woolwich, to convey and deliver into the custody of the keeper of the gaol at Maidstone, and to the keeper to receive into his custody the plaintiff's wife, she having subscribed her deposition in a case of felony, &c. and being a most material and necessary witness, on behalf of the king, touching the said felony, and refusing to appear at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to give such evidence as she ought to give, and refusing to find due sureties for such her appearance, in contempt of the laws and against the peace, &c. and her safely keep until delivered by due course of |