Note 90 — OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND PLEAS IN BAR OF EXECUTION.

At Abingdon assizes, Feb. 23, 1629, before Whitlock justice, one John Dean, an infant between eight and nine years, was indicted, arraigned, and found guilty of burning two barns in the town of Windsor; and it appearing upon examination that he had malice, revenge, craft, and cunning, he had judgment to be hanged, and was hanged accordingly. Note, 1 H. P. C. p. 25. At Dorchester assizes, March 1794, Elizabeth Marsh, aged 15 years, was convicted of the murder of John Nevil, her grandfather, at Morden, and was executed.