§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has received a memorial forwarded to His Excellency by the medical witnesses for the Crown in the case of Rex. v. Moore, which ended in a capital conviction at the Cork Spring Assizes, the death sentence being commuted into a sentence of penal servitude for life, praying the exercise of the prerogative of pardon in the case of the prisoner, and expressing their belief that the wound on the body of the deceased was compatible with accidental causes, and the evidence insufficient to warrant a conviction; and whether, having regard to the doubt as to whether a murder was committed at all, and as to whether, if committed, Moore was the perpetrator, His Excellency will be pleased to consider favourably the prayer of the memorial.
§ MR. WYNDHAMA memorial of the nature referred to was received by the Lord Lieutenant during the time the condemned man was under sentence of death. It was carefully considered by the Lord Lieutenant with the assistance of the Lord Chancellor, with the result that the capital sentence was commuted to one of penal servitude for life.