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Thereafter Humphreys was indicted before the Court of Justiciary for the forgery of these and other documents. This trial took place on 29th and 31st April, and 1st, 2d and 3d May 1839, when the jury returned a verdict of not proven, but found that the documents received from le Normand were forged.
Of this date, on the motion of the pursuers, and no appearance being made for Humphreys, the Court adhered to the interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary in the reduction.
Lord Ordinary, Cockburn. Act. Lord Advocate, (Murray,) Sol.-Gen. (Rutherfurd,) Ivory, Innes. Alt. Robertson, Anderson, J. Inglis jun. Roderick Mackenzie, W. S. and E. Lockhart, W. S. Agents. T. Clerk.
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