This criminal law matter was brought against a man accused of making threats against a juror in the Myall Creek Massacre trial for finding the perpetrators guilty.

R v Douglass [1838] NSWSupC 112 (10 December 1838)

As the colony continued to expand, Britain instructed NSW Governors that the law should protect Aboriginal people. This often did not happen. The prosecution and execution of the seven men responsible for the Myall Creek massacre was an exception, and happened partly because some white colonists were prepared to give...