text:  The _proces-verbal_ of two of the cases above referred to is given at length; in one of which the murderer escaped condign punishment only because the extreme youth of the only eye-witness a slave nine years old prevented his testimony from being received otherwise than as _circumstantial_ evidence:--in the other "it being essential to make a lasting and impressive public example it was resolved that the criminals should not be put to death but condemned to such ignominious public chastisement as might serve during many years as a warning to others