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The trial of Daniel Disney, Esq; captain of a company in His Majesty's 44th Regiment of Foot, and town-major of the garrison of Montreal, : at the session of the Supreme Court of Judicature, holden at Montreal, on Saturday the 28th day of February, and thence continued by adjournments to Wednesday the 11th day of March, 1767, before the Honourable William Hey, esq; Chief-justice of the province of Quebec, upon an indictment containing two charges, the one for a burglary and felony, in breaking and entering Mr. Thomas Walker's house, at Montreal, on the night of the 6th day of December, in the year 1764, with an intention to murder the said Thomas Walker, the other for feloniously and of malice aforethought cutting off the right ear of the said Thomas Walker, with intention thereby to disfigure him, against the form of the statute of 22 and 23 Car.II. cap.i. in that case made and provided