Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd May 1776
Archibald
Girdwood
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and
Thomas
Jones
, otherwise
Evans
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, formerly capitally convicted, but upon whom judgment had been respited till the opinions of the Judges could be taken upon a point of law arising in their respective cases, were set to the bar, when Mr. Justice ASTON informed them, that the Judges were unanimously of opinion that their conviction was strictly legal, and they accordingly received sentence of death.