This case is a New South Wales Supreme Court criminal trial related to the Myall Creek Massacre. After an earlier trial resulted in an acquittal for the charged men, the Attorney General indicted the accused on further charges relating to the murder of an Indigenous child.

Justice Burton describes the atrocities committed by the accused including descending on a peaceful camp of the Wirrayaraay Kimilaroi people (not stated in source), tying them up, and leading them a short distance from their camp where they were beheaded and burned.