EaßAru.u. We find, that in reporting the case of the Queen v. Francis Leethart, in our last number, we rniscited the Statute, 7th William IV., and l»t Victoria, c. 85, That Statute enacts that “ on the trial of any person for any of the offences thereinbefore mentioned, it shall be lawful to acquit of the felony and to find a verdict of guilty o! assault, and when such verdict shall be found, the Court shall have power to imprison the person so found guilty of an assault for any term not exceeding three years.” J
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New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 60, 16 March 1842, Page 4
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