A Serious Mistake

John Poundall was charged at the Ripley Petty Sessions on Monday with assaulting Hamer Liggatt at Denaby, on August 28

The complainant said that on the day named he was in the defendant field and was asked by him for his name. He refused to give it, whereupon the defendant struck him with something that knocked him down and rendered him insensible.

It appeared from the evidence that the defendant considered the complainant was trespassing in his field for mushrooms.

The defendant admitted striking complaining, but said he threw stones at him, one of which hit him on the leg.

The Chairman (Sir J.G. Alleyne) said it was a very bad case of assault, and defendant would be fined £2 and costs. The charge of assault against Liggatt was dismissed