Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th September 1778
726.
DANIEL
MURPHY
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
procuring a person to join with him in three different notes, by the name of
Patrick
Murphy
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, in order to avoid the payment of 26 l. 10 s. in order to defraud
-
Wilson
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, May 24th
.
It appeared upon enquiry to be a crime of a higher nature;
the court therefore directed the jury to acquit the defendant of the fraud, and he was immediately committed by the court to take his trial at the next Session for forgery
.