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JACOB HODGES.
minal punishment, viz. imprisonment in
the ccunty jail for the term of one month
In justification of this mitigated punish
ment, the court remarked, that the man
dates of a stern and inflexible husband
might have influenced her conduct in rela
tion to the murder; but that however thi
might have been, the destitute situation of
her children, already deprived of a father,
so that she was now to be their only pro¬
tector— the only parent to whom they
must in future look for support; this and
a variety of other considerations, pressed
themselves upon the minds of the court,
who had thought proper to extend to her
all the mercy the law would allow.
The simplicity and honesty of Jacob's
whole deportment while upon trial and as
chief witness for the State, made a most
favourable impression upon the court, and
excited strong sympathy in his behalf.
They saw that he had been led into crime
by the deep-laid plan of wicked men, who
had been goaded to desperation by re¬
pealed disappointments, and whom no