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R v Robert Chatburn

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1833
Date01 January 1833
CourtHigh Court of Chancery

English Reports Citation: 168 E.R. 1320

LINCOLN'S INN

Rex
and
Robert Chatburn

1833. rex v. robert chatburn (It is no objection to a conviction of manslaughter on an indictment for murder that the indictment does not conclude contra formam statuti ) The prisoner was tried before Mr. Baron Bolland at the Summer Assizes 1833, for the county of York, upon an indictment at common law, which charged him with the offence of wilful murder. The jury acquitted the prisoner of the crime of murder, but found him guilty of manslaughter, and Mr. Baron Bolland waa proceeding to pass upon him the sentence of transportation for life, pursuant to the statute 9 Geo. IV c. 31, s 9, when it was objected by the counsel for the prisoner, that as the punishment of transportation for life was inflicted by statute, and the indictment upon which the prisoner was convicted, was framed for an offence at common [404] law...

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