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TRIAL OF JOHN W. WEBSTER.
BEFORE THE
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HON. LEMUEL SHAW, Chief Justice.
HON. SAMUEL S. WILDE ,
HON. CHARLES A. DEWEY, Associate Justices.
HON. THERON METCALF, ~
Counsel for the Commonwealth.
HON. JOHN H. CLIFFORD, Attorney General.
GEORGE BEMIS, Esq.
Counsel for the Prisoner.
HON. PLINY MERRICK.
EDWARD D. SOHIER, Esq.
The Grand Jury for the County of Suffolk returned into the Munici-
pal Court of the City of Boston, held at Boston, on the 26th day of
January, A. D. 1850, the following indictment:
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SUFFOLK, TO WIT:-At the Municipal Court of the City of Boston,
begun and holden at said Boston, within and for the County of Suf-
folk, on the first Monday of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty:
The Jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on their oath
present:-- That John W. Webster of Cambridge, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, gentleman, on the twenty-third day of November last past, at
Boston, in the County of Suffolk, in and upon one George Parkman,
feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault;
and that he .the said John W. Webster, with a certain knife which he
then and there in his right hand had and held. him the said George
Parkman, in and upon the left side of the breast of him the said George
Parkman, then and there feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice afore-
thought, did strike, cut, stab and thrust,-giving to the said Georke Park-
man, then and there with the knife aforesaid, in and upon the left side of
the breast of him the said George Parkman, one mortal wound of the
length of one inch and of the depth of three inches;-of which said mor-
tal wound the said George Parkman then and there instantly died.-And
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