Report on the trial of Daniel H. Corey on an indictment for the murder of Mrs. Matilda Nash : at the term of the superior court of judicature holden at Keene, in the county of Cheshire, on the first Tuesday of October, A.D. 1830 / by Joel Parker.

  • Parker, Joel, 1799-1873.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Report on the trial of Daniel H. Corey on an indictment for the murder of Mrs. Matilda Nash : at the term of the superior court of judicature holden at Keene, in the county of Cheshire, on the first Tuesday of October, A.D. 1830 / by Joel Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eu . ' On this indictment the prisoner was arraigned and plead- ed Not Guilty. ' _ . ,_is friends then requested the Court to assign Messrs. Woodbury, H. Hubbard and J. Parker, as his counsel. e Court remarked, that they were authorized to assign two counsel only, but that any other might be employed, and assigned Messrs. Hubbard and Parker—and Mr. Wood- bury was associated with them in the defence. The Attorney General being absent, and the defence of the prisoner being Insanity, for which preparation had not been made, and it being understood that Messrs. Wood- bury and Hubbard would necessarily be absent at the next term, attending a session of Congress, it was agreed, with the consent of the Court, that the case should stand continued until the October term, 1830. At the October term, 1830, Present. Hon. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON, Chief Justice. Hon. SAMUEL GREEN, ) T .. Hon. JOHN HARRIS, $ Justices. Monday of the second week of the term was assigned as the day of trial—and, in the absence of the Attorney General, Messrs. P. Handerson, and J. Wilson, jr. were associated with Mr. Chamberlain, the Solicitor, in con- ducting the prosecution. On the day assigned, the prisoner was set to the bar, and forty- nine jurors appeared and answered. The Clerk then addressed the prisoner : Daniel H. Corey—These good men who have been called, and have answered to their names, are those who are to pass upon your trial. You have a right to object to hvcnty of them without giv- ing any reason, and to more if you can show sufficient cause. If, therefore, you wish to object to them, or any of them, you may chal- lenge them when they are called to be sworn, aud before they art sicorn, and you shall be heard. The list was then called over in the usual form in capital cases, the Clerk, as each juror was called, and rose, repeating—''Juror, look upon the prisoner—prisoner, look upon the juror—what say you —have you any objection—and the jury were selected as follows : Elijah Walton, Abishai Wetherbee, Samuel Burt, Franklin Bond, Moses Wark, Cyrus Frost, Jude Damon, Thaddeus Cummings, Samuel Patch Ebenezer Isham, of Chesterfield, Challenged Do. Do. Do. Do. Dublin, Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Fitzwilliam, Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Gileum,