Holden at the ASSIZES at WESTMINSTER, on the 7th January, 1914.
ASSIZE COURT }
KING’S HALL, COVENT GARDEN } To wit:
County of LONDON }
The Jurors for this trial upon their oath[1] present, that JOHN
JASPER on the 24th day of December in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty in the Parish of Cloisterham and
within the jurisdiction of the said Court, feloniously, wilfully,
and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder one EDWIN DROOD
against the peace of every true Dickensian.