The application by Mr Pitt, on behalf of Henry Eden, sentenced to imprisonment for an assault committed on H. Beitt Esq. M.P. C., before N. G. Morse and H. Martin Esquires J.J.P., was heard this morning in Chambers before his Honor Mr Justice Richmond, Mr H. Adams apearing for the Justices. The conviction was quashed, and the prisoner, who was brought up under a writ of habeas corpus, was discharged, the Justices having exceeded their powers by inflicting a seutence of three months' imprisonment, when the Act of 1867 only empowered them to inflict one of two months. The warrant, moreover, was informal, it being stated thatthe prisoner had been ' charged with' and not * convicted of ' the assault.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 32, 8 February 1868, Page 2
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