Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th January 1745
146.
Avecina
Bennett
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
stealing a mob, value 2 s. and a gown, value 12 s.
the goods of
James
Farrell
proceedingsvictim
, Dec. 24
.
It appeared to be an ill natured prosecution; there had been a difference between the Prisoner and the wife of the Prosecutor; and the prosecutor had then on a new coat, which cloth the Prisoner had as a gift from one of the livery companies.
A clerk to a gentleman in the commission of the peace said, the Prosecutor's wife deserved to be in the place of the Prisoner.
Acquitted
.