Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
19th April 1721
Samuel
Clarke
proceedingsdefend
, of St. John at Wapping
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing a Cloth Coat value 10 s. and a Drugget Wastcoat value 7 s.
the Goods of
Gabriel
Piercy
proceedingsvictim
, on the 8th of this Instant April
. It appeared that the Prisoner took the Goods out of the Prosecutor's Cabbin, and going to sell them, was stopt, and the Goods cry'd, and own'd by the Prosecutor. The Prisoner in Excuse pleaded, that he was so Drunk he knew not what he did or said. The Jury found him
Guilty
.
Transportation
.