THE TRIAL OF GEORGE FULLICK
| The following is a report of the trial of George Fullick, at Winchester Crown Court Friday July 14 1854, as it appeared in the London Times | |
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THE TIMES
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 Western Circuit Winchester George Fullick was indicted for the wilful murder of John Barron at Headley on May 27 1854. Mr Poulden was Counsel for the prosecution, and Mr Coleridge, at the request of the learned judge, defended the prisoner. On the evening of the 27 May the deceased, the prisoner, and several other persons, who were members of the benefit club assembled at the White Horse public house at Headley. They continued drinking till a late hour. There was a quarrel between the prisoner and a man in the name of Winter as they were going home; they struggled and fell down, and the prisoner, who had risen, was beating Winter when he was on the ground. The deceased interfered and knocked the prisoner down. The prisoner got up again and stabbed the deceased with a knife in the belly and the intestines protruded. The deceased cried out that the prisoner had killed him, He was carried home, a surgeon was sent for and everything was done for him but he died in about three days. When the prisoner was told that he had killed the man, he said he did not care if he hung for it. Mr Coleridge for the prisoner, urged that the prisoner had committed the act when his blood was heated, and that the offence, therefore, amounted only to manslaughter. Mr Justice Wightman having summed up,
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