WINCHESTER, ASSIZES.
These assizes were commenced on Tuesday last by Mr. Justice Willes. There were 30 prisoners for trial; two for murder, one for an attempt to murder, one for manslaughter, two for arson, nine for highway robbery, two for bigamy, one for burglary, two for beastiality, four for felony, four for cutting and wounding, and one for receiving stolen property. Mr. Justice Willes, in his charge to the grand jury, alluded to the case of Dr. Deane, who was committed on a charge of ‟feloniously killing and slaying Hannah George, at Wymering, on the 29th October, 1857,” and observed that if a medical practitioner properly qualified was guilty of gross neglect, he was amenable to the law. This case had not come on for trial at the time our report left. Among those which interest this district which have been disposed are William Lyne, who pleaded guilty to breaking into a dwelling-house of John Harrison, of Buriton, and stealing a Mackintosh coat and divers other articles, eight months’ imprisonment. The two men, James and Wickers, who were taken up on a charge of stealing fowls (see Petersfield news) were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.