Colonial Cases
R. v. Cutting [1879]
[manslaughter]
R. v. Cutting, 1879
Consular Court, New York
1879
Source: Sacramento Daily Union, 19 November 1879
The Consular Court at New York to inquire into the killing of a sailor on board the British ship Corengo during a mutiny on the 3d November, has completed its labors. The Court ordered that Cutting, the mate who struck the sailor with a hatchet, be sent to England for trial on a charge of manslaughter, and sentenced three of the mutinous sailors to one month's imprisonment.
Source: Los Angeles Herald, 20 November 1879
Case of Mutiny at Sea.
ANTWERP, Nov. 19th. see Sacramento Daily Union, 19 November 1879, above.