9.
127
added.
[ the words underlined being upon my subsequent protest, I that
the
or
attempt
any
t to commit extortion,
other misdemeavor, directly
verisa
" or viedirectly, is itself, a
a misdemearn " and that if they thought the- defered ant quilly, they wost pus. ' hiin quilty : His Lordship here and then, changing his paused tove, resumed as
as follows; - You
" will fried him not quilly, if '" you think that all that he did suggestion to the
I was to make a
" prisoners that they ought to pay
the
Atvai
of the Cookshop . In a
· few minutes the jury returned Verdict of "Not Guilty '" Before
I left the court two of them informand me that they had found the
" Verdict entirely upon
entirely upon that last Statement of the judge
as to the
that be
" suggestion", - conceiving ' meant to say that in that case, "'it would be quite immaterial " whether the defendant
dant was or was
to add that-
' not himself liable to pay the bill "to which his suggestion" head- reference - I beg this information was en voluntary
their part, and
ov
enti
entirely
that I had not sought any
conversation on the
subject of
the trial with either of them.
The revission to recapitulate