Rowland St. Johns proceedingsdefend , was indicted for Murthering John Stiles proceedingsvictim Esquire , a Gentleman of Lincolns Inn , the which upon Evidence appeared to be thus. The party deceased and the Prisoner being intimate Acquaintance and often keeping Company together, on the 7th of December last happened to meet, and after having been at several Taverns, at last came to Richards Coffe-House near Temple-Bar, where laying a trivial wager about measuring two Dishes of Chockalet, they afterwards went to the St. Johns H Chancery-Lane,to drink it, where falling at some difference about paying their Reckoning, they came from thence to the Kings-Head Alehouse, and there not well agreeing, from thence they went to the three Cranes ; and coming into the Company of some Gentlemen that kept a Club there; they offered to refer their differences to them; but they finding them both in Drink, and that some words had passed between them, all but one Gentleman left them, when after two or three hasty words passing between them, the deceased laid his hand upon his Sword, which occasioned the other to draw and whilst the Gentlemen that went in their Company, went down to call for help to part them, the Prisoner had run the deceased in two Inches under the Left Pap, of which in three days he dyed, but there being no former Grudg nor premeditated Malice proved, notwithstanding three Indictments were laid, one for wilful Murder, one upon the Corroners Inquest, and one upon the Statute of Stabbing, yet he was found Guilty of Manslaughter only.