Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
28th June 1780
419.
JOSEPH
FARRINGDON
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was indicted for
that he together with forty other persons and more, unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously did assemble on the 8th of June
, to the disturbance of the publick peace, and did begin to demolish and pull down the dwelling-house of
Cornelius
Murphy
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, against the form of the statute, &c.
(The counsel for the crown informed the court that they had no evidence to bring the charge home to the prisoner, except an accomplice in the crime.)
NOT GUILTY
.