IN CRIMINAL LAW, ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN ALL THE COURTS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. EDITED BY EDWARD W. COX, Esq., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, Barrister-at-Law. VOL. IV. 1850 to 1851. LONDON: JOHN CROCKFORD, LAW TIMES OFFICE, 29, ESSEX STREET, STRAND. 1851. REPORTERS. CRIMINAL APPEAL CASES, before all the Judges, by A. BITTLESTON, Esq. OXFORD CIRCUIT, by J. E. Davis, Esq. ; HOME CIRCUIT, by PAUL PARNELL, Esq.; NORFOLK CIRCUIT, by JOHN B. DASENT, Esq.; HE Pettit Regan Roberts, Blore, and Savage Rook Rouse and others Sansome.. Simmonds Simpson .. Smith Smythies : 164 334 145 400 7 Turweston, Inhabitants of Welch Wiley Wilkins and another Williams.. Withers the younger Woolley .. 203 277 275 42 Woolley . 94 13 349 442 336 430 412 92 87, 356 17 193, 251, 255 452 REPORTS OF Criminal Law Cases. Freland. QUEEN'S BENCH. MICHAELMAS TERM, 1849. November 22 and 26. (Before the full COURT.) REG. v. BROWNE. (a) Proce-Search warrant-Treasonable documents-MandamusProduction of informations. J. L., his house having been searched for treasonable documents, by virtue of a search warrant, applied for a mandamus to compel the justice, who had signed the warrant, to produce the informations upon which it was issued, and to permit a copy of them to be taken, supporting the application by affidavits that there was no real ground for suspicion, and that the applicant believed that whoever swore the information was actuated by malice and ill-will. Held, that such writ did not lie. THIS was an application on behalf of John Lawless, for a con ditional order that a writ of mandamus do issue, directed to Lieutenant-Colonel George Browne, a justice of the peace, and one of the commissioners of police for the police district of Dublin Metropolis, commanding him to produce any informations sworn before him, upon which a search warrant, signed by LieutenantColonel Browne, had issued, by virtue of which police inspector (a) Reported by W. ST. LEGER BABINGTON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. VOL. IV. B |