Report of the Trial by Jury in the Counter Actions of Defamation and Damages: Kingan Versus Watson Et E Contra : and Also of the Proceedings Under the Motion for a New Trial, to which are Prefixed Observations on Mr. Kingan's Case by a Member of the Bar1828 - 244 páginas |
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accused action affidavit afterwards Aitken alleged anonymous letters arbiters asked believe blackballing called Campbell carried letters charge CHARLES MACKINTOSH CHARLES STIRLING circumstances clerk conversation Court Cowan damages day of June defender deponent deponent's house Dreghorn Edinburgh engravers evidence examined fact father Gentlemen Gilbert Watson grounds guilty hand heard Hunter informed interrogatory James Oswald John Kingan Jury King Kingan's agent Kingan's handwriting Kingan's letters Kingan's service Kirkman Finlay knew learned friend Linthouse Lizars M'Intosh Macdowall Mackintosh Majesty's Justices Margaret Aitchison Patrick Margaret Patrick matter mentioned Miss Hutton Miss Oswald occasion opinion parish of Govan parties person Pleasance Post-office precognition precognosced proceeding proved pursuer received recollect reference resided Robert Dalgleish Robert Patrick Robert Watson Rowan sent Shieldhall statement Stevenson Dalgleish Stirling suspicion sworn testimony thing tion told trial trick truth verdict Vinegar note Walkinshaw Whitsunday 1825 William Gibson witness written
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Página 38 - ... letters were transmitted, and containing matter offensive and insulting to the said parties, and calculated to hurt the feelings of the individuals to whom they were addressed, and to create dissensions in families, and to destroy friendly intercourse ; and containing matter of so abominable description, -that whoever was guilty of writing or transmitting the said letters, knowing their contents, ought to be branded with infamy and banished from society : " Whether, at various times and places,...
Página 77 - Do you know the parties, plaintiff and defendant, in the title of these interrogatories nam.ed, or either, and which of them, and how long have you known them or either, and which of them? declare the truth, and yonr knowledge herein.
Página 72 - ... intercourse, and containing matter of so abominable description, that whoever was guilty of writing or transmitting the said letters, knowing their contents, ought to be branded with infamy and banished from society,— Whether, at various times and places in and near Glasgow, during the years 1825 and 1826, or either of them, the defender did falsely and calumniously state or insinuate to various persons, that the pursuer was the author of the said anonymous letters, or any of them, or was concerned...
Página 38 - Nos. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 4,9, 50, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84 and 85 of process Kingan against Watson, and No. 19 of the process Watson against Kingan, are part of the said anonymous letters : " Whether the pursuer did write and transmit the whole, or any part of the anonymous letters last aforesaid, or did transmit the whole or any of them, knowing the contents of the same ?" (Signed) WILLIAM ADAM, Lord Chief Commissioner.
Página 38 - Lanark, containing gross and obscene allusions, and abominable insinuations, and charges of improper and immoral conduct against the parties, or the near relations of the parties, to whom the said letters were transmitted, and containing matter offensive and insulting to the said parties, and calculated to hurt the feelings of the individuals to whom they were addressed, and to create dissensions in families, and...
Página 72 - After some further evidence had been given, and counsel had been heard for the prisoners, the jury retired, and, after an absence of about half an hour, returned a verdict, finding, by a large majority, Woods guilty of murder ; and, by a majority, Henrietta Young or Woods not guilty.
Página 38 - It being admitted, that during the years 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825, a great number of anonymous letters were written and transmitted to certain individuals of a number of families residing in, or connected with the parish of Govan, in the county of Lanark, containing gross and obscene allusions, and abominable insinuations, and charges of...
Página 131 - The situation in which I am placed is one of great hardship and cruelty, and, as arising from judicial procedure, one of singular novelty. Being no party to the appointment of the judges, they are as to me without jurisdiction. Yet they have put me on my trial, but without citation. I am treated as an accused person, but there is no accuser. Evidence is procured from one, at the...
Página 131 - I resorted to the real evidence of the case, the declarations of the receivers of these anonymous lettars, it would have proved that, to a person circumstanced as I am, to have written them, was, to say the least of it, utterly impossible. . . ... It is humiliation to have to defend one's self against such a charge, but no alternative is left me. And here I beg leave to say, that most humbly because most deservedly I shall submit to whatever disgrace and infamy my worst...
Página 131 - When the publie have wondered at all this for a day or two, intelligence is brought to me, for the first time, of the existence of the proceedings — proceedings by which I have been pronounced guilty in absence and innocence. This engraver's opinion, had I known of these on-goings, and thought proper to plead before the judges, I might have shown, by equal, perhaps better authority in his own profession, was wholly groundless.