William Collins proceedingsdefend , of the Parish of St. James's, Westminster was indicted , together with John Turner < no role > not taken, for the Murder of Thomas Roberts proceedingsvictim , by beating and bruising him on the Head, Breast, &c. on the 19th of September , of Which Bruises and Blows he languished till the 6th of October, and then dy'd . He was indicted a second Time on the Coroner's Inquest for feloniously killing the said Thomas Roberts. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoner and the Deceased being in a Publick House a drinking, but not in the same Company: The Prisoner took occasion to call the Deceased a reproachful Name, which giving occasion for more provoking Language, they fell to fighting, but the Surgeons deposing that they did not perceive any Marks of Violence on the Body of the Deceased; but a great Inflammation of the Pleura and other Parts, which they did not think were occasioned by any Blows given; but that he rather died of a Fever, which they could not say was occasioned by the Blows, the Jury acquitted him.