Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th April 1720
proceedingsdefend
,of St. Leonard Eastcheap
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing 70 Pound weight of Tobacco, value 4 l. 10 s. the Goods of
Job
Wicks
proceedingsvictim
, in the Dwelling House of the said Job Wicks
, on the 8th of April
last. It appeared that the Prisoner was the Prosecutor's Servant
; and his fellow Servant deposed that he perceiving his Pocket to stick out, searched him, and found a Paper of Tobacco in it worth about 18 d. which he owned to him was his Master's, and that he took it out of his Cellar. The Constable also deposed that he confest he had taken Tobacco several times. The said Paper of Tobacco was produced in Court. The Jury considering the matter found him
Guilty to the value of 10 d.
Transportation
.