Report of the Trial of the Students on the Charge of Mobbing, Rioting, and Assault, at the College, on January 11 & 12, 1838 |
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Page 1 - MURDER is a crime of an heinous nature, and severely punishable, yet true it is and of verity that you the said William...
Page 90 - The general term mobbing and rioting includes all those convocations of the lieges for violent and unlawful purposes, which are attended with injury to the persons or property of the lieges, or terror and alarm to the neighbourhood in which it takes place. The two phrases are usually placed together; but nevertheless they have distinct meanings, and are sometimes used separately in legal language,— the word mobbing being particularly applicable to the unlawful assemblage and violence of a number...
Page 89 - ... most serious charge which, if tried in another place, might have been followed by transportation; let them see what were the terms of the indictment. "Whereas, by the laws of this, and every other well-governed realm—" Mr. Innes: "Is that in the indictment?" Mr. Robertson: "No, it is not. It is omitted, and no wonder; for the present is not a prosecution, I admit, according to the laws of this or any other well-governed realm. Well, then, after naming the students, it goes on to say that they...
Page 89 - ... and did, within the area and precincts of the College or University of Edinburgh, and on South Bridge Street opposite or near to the said College or University, conduct themselves in a riotous and outrageous manner, to the disturbance of the public peace, and to the terror and alarm of the lieges, and did throw snowballs or other missiles at them '—that is, at the lieges.
Page 88 - I once had, but, alas ! only for a very short time " — he would have abandoned at an earlier stage such a preposterous, pitiful, and contemptible prosecution. " We are here, my Lord, in a court of justice ; we have a libel, we have a judge, we have two Crown lawyers, and we have five prisoners. We have had nineteen witnesses examined on the one side, and eighteen on the other. We have produced in evidence three
Page 3 - ... art and part, in so far as on the day of , or about that time, he did [here state the particulars of the offence, specifying particularly the place where the crime was committed]. May it therefore please your lordship to grant warrant to apprehend the said , and bring him before you [or to cite him to appear before you] to answer to this libel, and thereafter to [here specify the punishment concluded for], according to justice. AB 2. — DELIVERANCE ON LIBEL.
Page 1 - ... is, at the lieges. But the outrages did not stop here, for these evil-disposed persons also did throw snowballs at ' several carts and carriages passing along or near to the said street, and at the windows and other parts of the houses or shops or other premises in the said street.' That is on the Thursday, and then the same horrible things are charged on the Friday.
Page 87 - ... When we take into account the energy that characterized the Established Church previous to 1843, the career of glory and of good that land. . . . But that the Disruption of the Church of Scotland, which is held to be the fault of the Government, will be followed by the overthrow of the others, I entertain no more doubt than I do of my own existence. The evil will begin in Ireland, it matters little where it will end.
Page 90 - ... —that is, at the lieges. But the outrages did not stop here, for these evil-disposed persons also did throw snowballs at ' several carts and carriages passing along or near to the said street, and at the windows and other parts of the houses or shops or other premises in the said street.
Page 93 - ... against them. Having, with characteristic comments, reviewed the evidence with which the reader is already familiar, Mr. Robertson said that the row was begun by the mob and that the police behaved most shamefully. " The townspeople were supported by a police which is the disgrace of this metropolis, the most expensive, I believe, in Europe, and at the same time, as these proceedings have proved, the most inefficient and the most brutal.
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| Title | Report of the Trial of the Students on the Charge of Mobbing, Rioting, and Assault, at the College, on January 11 & 12, 1838 |
| Authors | Charles John Dalrymple, Simon MacGregor |
| Contributors | University of Edinburgh. Students' Committee, Edinburgh. Sheriff Court |
| Publisher | A. Shortrede, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 100 pages |
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