John Richardson and Thomas Gunningham stood indicted for an assault and robbery at Parramatta, on the person of William Harvey.  The prisoners were lodgers in the house of the prosecutor, and on the night of the assault were all intoxicated together; the assault arose out of a song which was sung by one of the prisoners, which so affected the sympathies of Lydia Sharpe, a woman with whom the prosecutor lived, that she fell a-crying, when the prosecutor became jealous, and struck her, when the prisoners made an assault upon him, and during which a sum of money was abstracted from his person.  The Jury found the prisoner Richardson Not Guilty; Gunningham Guilty - to be transported to a Penal Settlement for fourteen years.

[Lydia Sharpe, who holds a ticket-of-leave, was sentenced to six months' confinement in the Female Factory, third class, for gross prevarication in giving her evidence, with a recommendation to his Excellency the Governor to cancel her indulgence.]