Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

8th December 1686

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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 .




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