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RICHARD PATCH.
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Rim about three years, and that he bore a good character;
the third says, he has known him above a twelvemonth, but
his knowledge of him was only by his dealing in the yard:
they all speak to his chafacter but for a short time back; and
the last witness says, it was only from dealing with him in the
yard that he knew him, and that he was an industrious man.
Gentlemen, upon the whole of this evidence you are to
consider, in the first place, whether you are satisfied with re-
gard to this 1000/. AV hether you think there was not a com-
plete deception carried on upon Mr. Blight with respect to
it, as it has been proved by Mrs. Blight’s testimony ; and
whether there was not in Mr. Blight’s mind a perfect persua-
sion that this 1000/. check, as part of the consideration, was
good and effective money, and would be paid for the third
share of the business. The evidence in that respect seems to
be exceedingly strong, and in no way to be affected by the
suggestion, that it was Mr. Blight’s wish to make a foolish,
appearance, not with his own cash, but with the prisoner’s
cash at the prisoner’s bankers. If you are of opinion that
that is so, the next question is, does any man deceive another
in this way, time after time, without having some ulterior ob-
ject ? And then you xx ill be to say whether he had the ulte-
rior object of destroying Mr. Blight.
The next step in the business is the transaction of the
19th. Now that transaction consists of these circumstances :
■—he himself orders the window to be shut at an earlier hour
than usual; the effect of that window being shut would be,
that nobody could see whether any person was sitting in the
room or not. Now we must suppose one of two things,
either, that if a stranger had fired this pistol, it must be one
who knew the state of the family at that time, or one who
did not; if he did not know its divided state, he must sup-
pose the family was entire; that Mr. and Mrs. Blight, and
the prisoner, were in the house; that the maid servant might
be passing backwards and forwards \ that visitors might come
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Rim about three years, and that he bore a good character;
the third says, he has known him above a twelvemonth, but
his knowledge of him was only by his dealing in the yard:
they all speak to his chafacter but for a short time back; and
the last witness says, it was only from dealing with him in the
yard that he knew him, and that he was an industrious man.
Gentlemen, upon the whole of this evidence you are to
consider, in the first place, whether you are satisfied with re-
gard to this 1000/. AV hether you think there was not a com-
plete deception carried on upon Mr. Blight with respect to
it, as it has been proved by Mrs. Blight’s testimony ; and
whether there was not in Mr. Blight’s mind a perfect persua-
sion that this 1000/. check, as part of the consideration, was
good and effective money, and would be paid for the third
share of the business. The evidence in that respect seems to
be exceedingly strong, and in no way to be affected by the
suggestion, that it was Mr. Blight’s wish to make a foolish,
appearance, not with his own cash, but with the prisoner’s
cash at the prisoner’s bankers. If you are of opinion that
that is so, the next question is, does any man deceive another
in this way, time after time, without having some ulterior ob-
ject ? And then you xx ill be to say whether he had the ulte-
rior object of destroying Mr. Blight.
The next step in the business is the transaction of the
19th. Now that transaction consists of these circumstances :
■—he himself orders the window to be shut at an earlier hour
than usual; the effect of that window being shut would be,
that nobody could see whether any person was sitting in the
room or not. Now we must suppose one of two things,
either, that if a stranger had fired this pistol, it must be one
who knew the state of the family at that time, or one who
did not; if he did not know its divided state, he must sup-
pose the family was entire; that Mr. and Mrs. Blight, and
the prisoner, were in the house; that the maid servant might
be passing backwards and forwards \ that visitors might come
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