News: Queen v. Michael O'Brien, 11-2-1890 Nenagh Guardian *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Tipperary Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Mary Heaphy QUEEN V. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, 11-2-1890 11-2-1890 Nenagh Guardian. The Case of "The Queen V. Michael O'Brien" came on for hearing today in the Queen's bench Division, on a writ of error. Michael O'Brien was tried at the last Nenagh Assizes and convicted of poisoning his father-in-law and was sentenced to be hanged at Limerick on the 14th of last Month, but the execution was respited for the purpose of enabling the question raised by his counsel, to be argued before the Court. Dr. Falkiner, his counsel contended that the prisoner ought to have been tried by a common jury of the County in which the indictment was found, and not by a special jury at Nenagh, the crime having been committed in Limerick. He also contended that the prisoner had been deprived of his right to object to a change of venue by the removal of the trial from Waterford, where the venne had been placed on the certificate of the Attorney-General under the provisions of the Winter Assizes Act. The Solicitor General, Serjeant Hemphill, Mr. Carson, Q.C. and Mr. E.G.Swift appeared in support of the conviction. The prisoner was in the custody of the Governer of the Limerick Prison , two warders, and some members of the RIC force. The arguments which were of a purely technical character in regard to the construction of the Judicature Act, The Winter Assizes Act, and the Crimes Act, occupied the day, and have not concluded.