SINGULAR LAW CASE.
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A man by the name of Smith, cut off the
ears of one Taylor, in Nassau, New Provi-
dence; he was tried and convicted under
the statute of Mayhem, which is capital
offence an arrest of judgment was moved,
on the ground that the ear was not a "mem-
Der Of the body, as referred to in the stat
ute"


The Court took week to consider, and
gave learned opinion, showing clearly that
the eye was member of the body, and in
citing authorities, the following were refer
red to from St. Paul, in his first epistle to
Corinthians


IA. For the body is not one member, but
many.


IS. If the foot shall say, because am not
the hand, am not of the body is it there
fore not of the body?


16. And If the ear shall say, because am
not the eye, am not of the body it is not
therefore of the body?


II. If the whole body were an eye, where
were the hearing? If the whole were hear
ing, where were the smelling?


l8. But now hath God set the members
every one OF them to the body, as it hath
pleased him.


Scntenc of death was then solemnly pro-
nounced by the Court.