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. He was likewise Indicted for wilful Murther by the Coroner's Inquest, &c. The Evidence deposed, that the Musquet was shot off by the Prisoner, and that he said he did it accidently, firing it off into a Ditch near where the Deceased stood, and was very sorry for it, and that he had no Malice against the Deceased, for that he was a Stranger to him, &c. all which he did not deny upon his Tryal, so he was found
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