Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th January 1782
140.
EDWARD
FLYN
proceedingsdefend
was indicted, for
assaulting
John
Woolgrove
proceedingsvictim
, upon the King's highway, on the 5th of December
last, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from him 7 s. and 6 d. in money
.
JOHN
WOOLGROVE
< no role >
sworn.
I was robbed on the 5th of December, on the road from the Green Dragon at near seven in the evening; he could not speak to the features of the prisoner.
James Briley and
John
Hull
< no role >
, deposed, they were with the prisoner, from between five and six, to within a few minutes of eight in the evening, on the 5th of December, at the Rose, in Rose-lane, Spittal-fields.
ACQUITTED
.