Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th December 1727
Sarah
Hunt
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, was indicted for the
Murder of her Bastard Child
, on the 10th of Nov
. last; to which Indictment she pleaded Not Guilty.
Mary
Leg
< no role >
depos'd, That on the 9th of Nov. she suspecting the Prisoner to be with Child, charg'd her with it, but she stifly denied it, and that next Day perceiving her something less in Body they sent for a Midwife, who, searching, gave her Opinion that she had been delivered of a Child, which they afterwards found in a Trunk, wrap'd in a Flannel Petticoat; but it did not appear to this Deponent that there had been any Violence offer'd to it.
Ann
True
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, Midwife, depos'd, That she did believe the Child might be lost for want of Help in the Delivery, for it had neither Mark nor Blemish which might denote its being murdered
Mary
Tate
< no role >
depos'd, That the Prisoner gave her some Childbed Linnen to mend, sometime before the Child was born; and that furthermore, she had given her a Shilling to give Earnest for a Room, which she had actually taken for the Conveniency of her Lying-in. This being confirmed, and the Prisoner's saying, she did believe her Time of Delivery was not so near, and several other Circumstances concurning therewith, the Jury
acquitted
her.