§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)asked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether, in a case heard at the last Ulster Winter Assizes, at Armagh, against two men, named Hillman and M'Grath, charged with having been concerned in the affray at the tramway stables during the recent Belfast riots, the jury acquitted Hillman, and at first disagreed as to M'Grath, but, having re-examined two witnesses, named Lacky and Whelan (the former of whom was himself charged with murder), who swore that they had pointed out M'Grath in the stable yard at the time of the affray to a sergeant of the Constabulary, the jury then convicted M'Grath, and he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment; whether the sergeant in question, John Murphy, can testify that neither of the witnesses pointed out M'Grath to him; and that M'Grath was not in the stable 757 yard at the time of the affray; and, whether the case will be made the subject of inquiry?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. HOLMES) (Dublin University), in reply, paid, the witnesses Lacky and Whelan had been examined and cross-examined in the usual way, and a verdict was found by the jury. Sergeant Murphy states that M'Grath was not pointed out to him. On the occasion of the affray he did not know M'Grath's appearance, and could not say whether he was there or not. The Crown Solicitor had not reported on other points in the Question, and he (the Attorney General for Ireland) had ordered him to do so, and was making further inquiries in the matter.