COURT OF KING’S BENCH, NOVEMBER 24, 1817.
This morning the celebrated John Church was brought up before the Court, for the purpose of receiving its judgment, in pursuance of his conviction at the last Croydon Assizes, for an attempt to commit an unnatural crime.
During the greater part of the morning the Court was occupied by passing judgments on offenders against the Excise Laws; and it was not until one o’clock, that the Court proceeded to pronounce sentence on the above defendant.
Lord Ellenborough, who had tried the case, then read over all his notes taken on the trial, and the defendant then handed in an affidavit to the officer of the Court, for the purpose of inducing their Lordships to pass a lenient sentence on him.