Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
1st June 1682
John
Austin
proceedingsdefend
was Tryed for
Stealing Goods to the Value of 9 Shillings
from
John
Ashton
proceedingsvictim
in St. Martins in the Fields
on the 10th of April
which were afterwards found where he had sold them, but upon Tryal he utterly denyed that he knew any thing of the matter, affirming that he never was at that place, nor knew not where it was, but the party to whom he sold them, attesting that he brought them to him, and received Money for them, he found
Guilty
.