Mr. Lyall had expressed, be said, to his informant the oprision that the prisoner ahlum. was innocent.
Mr. Bowra, in Making
a-
suvilar communication
to the same or another
person, had added, he said,
that he would do all he
the pr
could to bring the
prisoner
through. Mr. C . Turner
was
acting for the then
Crown Solicitor on
occasion.
the-
Trour another gentleman
I learned also that Mr Bowra
had, previously to the poisoning
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declared in general terms.
• that he would never
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concur, if he could help it,
in any verdict for the side on which Jacted as Counsel, should it fall to his lot to be a juror in the case
Mr. Bowra's misconduct
in this
very
Case attracted
the disapprobation of the judge, upon my calling his Lordship's attention to ib:- and it was in his capacity of juror that he was quilty of such, I can the more easily therefore credit the
other statements as to him.
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