Reports of State Trials New Series Vol III 1831 to 1840

Such are the different_Trovisions of the law of England for the putting down of tumultuary meetings ; and it is not too much to affirm that if the means prvided by the law are promptly and judcially enforced by the magistrate and honestly seconded by the co-operation of his fellow subjects very few and rare would be the instances in which tumultuous assemblages of the people would be able [...] But if it was discharged in the fair and honest execution of his duty in endeavouring to disperse the mob by reason of their resisting; the act of the firing of the pistol was then an act justified by the occasion under the Riot Act before referred to and the kiling of the boy would then amount to accidental death only and not to the offence of manslaughter (a) )The learned Judge referred [...] The issue was as follows :- Pleas before our Lord the King at Westmister of Easter Term in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith. [...] And the said Attorney General gives the Court here to understand and be informed that heretfore to wit on the said twenty-ninth day of October in the year aforesaid in the said city and county there bad been divers tumults riots routs and unlawful assemblies of great numbers of evil-disposed persons within the said city and county and divers and violent breaches of the peace of our Lord the Kin [...] Neverthcless the said Attorney General in fact saith that the said Charles Pinney so then and there being such Mayor and Justice of the peace as aforesaid and well knowing of the said riots tumults and affrays and of the said burning demolishing and destroying of the said gaols and inesuages and of all other the premises aforesaid but disregarding and wilfully and wrongfully neglecting the duties