The Assizes: The Violation Case

British Colonist
5 August 1864

Regina vs. Kerre — William Francis Kerre was yesterday arraigned on an indictment charging him with violating the person of Anne Robinson, a child of the age of eight years, at Salt Spring Island. The circumstances of this atrocious case have already been sufficiently noticed. The evidence taken was the same as that adduced at the preliminary investigation before the committing magistrate. The jury pronounced the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labor.