Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
10th January 1718
Samuel
Goff
proceedingsdefend
, and
John
Evans
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Dunstans in the West
indicted for
felloniously stealing a Bell-mettal Pot value 20 s.
the Goods of
Thomas
Lartham
proceedingsvictim
, the 1st of November
last. The Prosecutor deposed he lost his Pot, and another deposed they brought it to him to sell, and he suspecting, inquired how they came by it, they reply'd, they found it raking into a heap of Cynders. The Fact plainly prov'd, the Jury found them both
guilty to the value of 10 d.
[No punishment. See summary.]