_Lewis Humphries_, for stealing, pled guilty:--sentenced to pay
treble damages, receive 20 stripes, sit on the gallows one hour
with a rope about his neck, pay costs of prosecution, and stand
committed till sentence be performed.--Upon declaring himself
unable to pay damages, was sentenced to be sold for the term of 5
years.
_William Padley_, for an assault upon his wife, with an intent to
kill her, was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to sit on the
gallows one hour, there to receive 30 stripes, pay costs of
prosecution, and stand committed till sentence be performed.
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Sentences by the Supreme Judicial Court at Salem, Nov. 18, 1786.
At the Supreme Judicial Court, holden in this town, for the
county of Essex, which adjourned on Thursday last, several
persons, criminally indicted, were convicted and severally
sentenced. Isaac Coombs, an Indian, was found guilty, at last
June term, at Ipswich, of murdering his wife; at which time a
motion was made to the Court, in arrest of judgment, on which the
Court suspended giving judgment thereon until this term; but the
said motion being overruled, the Court gave judgment of death
against him.
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