Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
28th February 1728
James
Howard
proceedingsdefend
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing seven Ounces of Goat's Hair, value 28 s.
on the 1st of October
last, the Property of
Mr.
Wigmore
proceedingsvictim
; but the Evidence against him not being plain there being several Persons in the Room where the Hair was, and that when it was laid to the Prisoner's Charge it was wet, and consequently could not weigh so much after curl'd and drawn; and the Prisoner having an extraordinary Character from several reputable Witnesses, the Jury
acquitted
him.