It is not the first offence, as I observe from a paper I hold in my hand.

The younger prisoner, Marston, has very properly been found guilty of criminal complicity with the same offence.

It may be that he has been concerned in other offences against the law, but of that we have no proof before this court.

He has not been previously convicted.

I do not offer advice to the elder criminal; his own heart and conscience, the promptings of which I assume to be dulled, not obliterated, I feel convinced, have said more to him in the way of warning, condemnation, and remorse than could the most impressive rebuke, the most solemn exhortation from a judicial bench.