Lego'me, an aboriginal native, stood indicted for a highway robbery, and putting in bodily fear Patrick Sheridan, at Brisbane Water, on the 18th January last.

Patrick Sheridan deposed that, on the day laid in the indictment, he was met by a party of blacks, amongst whom was the prisoner, who asked him for some tobacco, which he the prosecutor divided amongst them; after which, the prisoner, in a menacing attitude, poised his spear in the direction of the prosecutor and darted it forward, but the point went into the ground; prosecutor was exceedingly alarmed, expecting that he would be destroyed, as he had been informed that the blacks had been making enquiries for him a few days previously, and had committed many outrages in that neighbourhood; the party were all armed with their implements of warfare, with which they were observed to invariably furnish themselves since they had commenced robbing the settlers; and Lego'me advanced towards the prosecutor, commanding him to deliver up what he had about him, at the same time thrusting his hand in his pockets and pulled out a pipe and a knife, which was all prosocutor had about his person; having satisfied themselves that he had nothing else, they permitted him to proceed.  The prosecutor swore to the identity of the prisoner, as he had been in the habit of seeing him once or twice every week for two or three years, and he had frequently been allowed to sleep in prosecutor's hut.

Mr. Therry, on behalf of the prisoner, in his cross-examination of the prosecutor, asked him if he was not aware that he had been a squatter for some time on Legome's ground, and had frequently committed great depredations on his kangaroos.  The prosecutor, who did not appear to understand the nature of the question, said, that he believed the ground belonged to Government, and, as for kangaroos, he had something else to do than look for them.  The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Lego'me received sentence of transportation for seven years.