Following the brutal killing of 28 unarmed Aboriginal Australians in the Myall Creek massacre on 10 June 1838, Burton presided over the second trial, in which a jury convicted seven colonists of the murder of a single Aboriginal child (referred to as "Charley").
Following the brutal killing of 28 unarmed Aboriginal Australians in the Myall Creek massacre on June 10, 1838, Burton presided over the second trial, resulting in a conviction of seven colonists for the murder of a single Aboriginal child.