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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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