460. FRANCIS BENSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a silver watch, value thirty shillings , the property of John Johnson proceedingsvictim , May the 1st .

ANN JOHNSON < no role > sworn.

I am the wife of John Johnson < no role > ; we live in Great Turnstile , Holborn; my husband keeps a watchmaker's shop there: I saw the prisoner take the watch off the hook where I had just hung it; I seized him by the collar while he had the watch in his hand.

THOMAS POWELL < no role > sworn.

I am a constable: as I was going by Mr. Johnson's I saw a great mob; I went to assist Mr. Johnson; the prisoner said, as he had only taken the watch off the hook and not out of the house, it was but a misdemeanor; and he could only be imprisoned six months.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I am innocent of the charge.

GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]