Page and Harwood

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1681
Date01 January 1681
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 82 E.R. 907

King's Bench Division

Page and Harwood

hil. 23 car. banco eegis. page and harwood. Indictment. Page and Harwood, and one were indicted at the Assises at Nottingham upon the statute 1 Jac. 8. for stabbing one and the indictment was, that stabb'd [44] him, and Page and Harwood were present, abetting, &c. and contra formam statuti, and all there were found guilty contra formam statuti, and was hanged in the countrey ; but .Roll doubted whether these two were within the statute, and therefore adjourned them hither. And Walker produced a president 16 Car. where oue Welsh and five others were indicted at the sessions in the Old Baily upon this statute for the death of one Swiunerton, and because all five were present, and it could not appear upon the evidence which of them made the thrust, Bramston Chief Justice, Barkley and Jones directed the jury to find them guilty of manslaughter only a.t the common law; for though in judgment of law every one that is present, &c. is principal, so that the indictment may recite that any of them did make the thrust, and the jury should have found them equally guilty at the common law, yet in construction of this statute, which is so penal, it shall be extended only to such as really and actually made the thrust, and not to those which by construction of law only may be said to make it; for the end of the statute was to restrain the rage and cruelty of such persona as would suddenly stab another. And accordingly it was resolved in this case that the offenders should have their clergy. Then another question was...

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