Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
8th December 1686
William
Patience
proceedingsdefend
, of the Parish of Little Allhallows
, was Indicted for
Killing one
Joseph
Holt
proceedingsvictim
, on the 13th. day of August
last, giving him one Mortal Bruise upon the Left Shoulder, of which, he languished till the 8th. of November and then dyed
, &c. The Evidence against the Prisoner, deposed that the Prisoner and the deceased happened to quarrel in the street, and the deceased chanced to fall upon the Pavement, and Received the afore-said Bruise; but the Doctor and Chyrurgeon appearing on the Prisoners side, who deposed that the Bruise was not any occasion of his Death, but that he died of a Natural Disease, and no Mallice appearing to have been between them, he was found
not Guilty
.