Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
12th April 1727
Mary
Wyatt
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Andrew's Holborn
, was indicted for
stealing a Gloucestershire Cheese, value 2 s. on the 23d of March
last, in the House of
Richard
Cotton
proceedingsvictim
.
The Prosecutor depos'd. That he saw the Prisoner take the Cheese, and upon his pursuing her she dropt it. The Fact being plainly prov'd, the Jury brought her in
guilty to the Value of 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]