Show the niceties nice Kice ties of law the following is a part of an admirable sketch from tile the pen pell of paulding the other oilier day a littfe little caitiff was caught by moses the he gardener making off with the spoils of half a dozen hens heus nests being beilig seized by moses who by the tha way is tile the meekest of men he was brought bro ight before file the judge and there being at that time limea a young student at law oil on a visit at the house lie was called bitoon unon to e exercise his talents in drawing up thu the indictment of which I 1 hhall bhail give a brief analysis for the benefit of all YOU young ilg practitioners the indictment alleged or set forth ag as the ca cae case e may be that the culprit to wit jacob bumpus oil on the tiie twenty eighth day of april in fit the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty 1 and without regard I 1 to tile tiie rights of property or the tha obligations of cou conscience nce behag behig doubtless instigated by the devil siez bieza upon abstract discompose take away purloin steal or other otherwise wise wisa make free w with ith as aforesaid certain eggs as aforesaid the property properly of oi nancy dawson spinster as aforesaid first count it was alleged thit lint the defendant ac ac ac did ac ac seize upon mcg act mcg ac tho tha aforesaid eggs with his right hand second count that the de defendant rend allt atit ac ar ac did bieze upon the aforesaid eggs with ila ils lis lia left hand third count with both hanos haws fourth count with tila tha fing fingers rs of his hia right hand fifth count with tile the fingers of jofh it s left hand sith cou count ot with tile the fingers of or both hands seventh count with the thumb and fingers of lils his right liand hand eighth count willi with the thumb and fingers of hig bis left hand ninth count coant with the thumb and fi fingers rigers of both hands tenth count in some manner and by some means to the prosecutor unknown on examination it was proven by the testimony of moses the gardener that lie he arrested the culprit in the very act of escaping from the poultry yard with his hat kat full of or eggs that to have procured them ha he must have climbed over the poultry yard fence and that his crime was aggravated by the atrocious circumstance that not a single singie nest eg egg ga was left for the consolation of the bereaved bells hens the ile criminal belita called on for his lils defense made mado it nj denial denul of the charge but alleged in mitigation odthe of tile of dense Tense eliat another boy name lie refused to disclose had told illin jilin that another bov hose name lie likewise refused to disi close had hid told him that some soine of his hens laid their eggs there and desired him to go and get them he 11 also put in a plea of insun itys but that was overruled by tile tire th court the Tha judge who felt tile the delicacy of his position in being called upon to dec deo decide de hi in abuse of so much importance decided that i ina ino inasmuch as it was not proved to the satisfaction of the court that thai the culprit used either his tight hand or his left or indeed any aily hand at all oil in hi abstracting the e eggs aud and most especially that as the tile iia ILA ilat stated BO positively to be his bat hat actually belonged body else eise the prisoner must be acquitted the tile court accordingly acquitted a lecture oil on the tiie enormity of robbing lien llen roosts boosts which had bud such a powerful effect that lie left off tile th bract practice ice and was shortly afterwards defected with a bank note in his shok shoe which he ile had stolen from a painstaking cobler cobbler of the tho vil vii village fag |