6.
disappointment, the Chief Justice -
who had not said one word,
in the Course of these remarks of Mive,
at once
upon my
sitting down informed the Jury,
already
by
no doubt too well disposed
their late sitting to finish their labors, - that he should
"not think - unless they required
'it -
of reading any of his notes
to them.
-
that the oral evidence
was voluminous, - that there
" was all that official correspondence 'too, - and that really the question they had to decide was a
very
one, - had the defendant
simple one,
the intention to extort?' The
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ther, and, -¦
jury consulted together, a
in about five minutes, their foreman, ( a Mr. Ryrie, ) stated that they
would not trouble
his Lordship for his notes, but ' would like to hear his opinion
"
as to the law applicable to the case. The Chief Justice then informed them,- ( I quote his words as nearly, I think, as it is possible
to take them, ) - that extortion
-
" of money by a sheriff from " persons in his custody " crime, - that the receipt of
is
a.
"' money by him from such prisoner " is extortion, although no violen
be used
or men
cuttered
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