Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th January 1723
Thomas
Wykes
proceedingsdefend
of St. Leonard Shoreditch
, was Indicted for
feloniously stealing two Cheeses, value 12 s. in the Shop
of
Henry
Barns
proceedingsvictim
, the 15th of January
last. It appear'd the Prisoner took an Opportunity to take the Cheese out of the Shop, and run away with it, but being perceiv'd, was pursued and taken. The Prisoner own'd the Fact. The Jury found him
guilty to the Value of 10 d.
To be Whipp'd
.