Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th October 1728
Edward
Parks
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
assaulting
Marcus
Israel
proceedingsvictim
, a Jew
, endeavouring to take a silk Handkerchief
from the said
Marcus
Israel
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; but though the Prosecutor swore without Pity, and insisted upon Law without Mercy, or even Justice, yet the Prisoner being before a Christian Court, the Affair was judiciously eramined into, and the Prisoner not being found Guilty, was
acquitted
.