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confident of acquittal, is nearly out of clothes and is poorly prepared to meet the rigors of winter in jail. 

Andrew Heath was tried for an attempt to commit rape and sent to the penetentiary for one year.  It was generally thought that he would get clear, his former owner and overseer, both testified to his general good conduct, and that the woman was a common strumpet.  James Jackson, charged with grand larceny was found guilty of petit-larceny.  I think the evidence was insufficient to convict this man.  There was nothing but his own admissions to convict him, and it is a rule of evidence that if a part of a confession is take the whole must be, the magistrate who sent him on, and the constable who arrested him both testified that it was their belief that he was innocent. 
I am glad to be able to add that Judge Chambers seems to have co-incided in this opinion as he turned the man loose without punishment.  The whole conduct

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