Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th December 1717
William
Blewett
proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 12101210.
, of St. Michael Cornhill
was indicted for
feloniously stealing 3 Child's holland Shifts value 4 s. and a Frock 1 s.6 d. from the Person of
Richard
Hyatt
proceedingsvictim
, the 26th of October
last. The Prosecutor deposed that going along in Cornhill
with the things in his Pocket the Prisoner gave him a Jostle and presently he missed the Things, that he immediately seised the Prisoner running away with the Goods, the Prisoner pleaded that there were 3 Boys who threw down the things and he took them up, not knowing them to be stole, but notwithstanding the Jury found him
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
[Whipping. See summary.]