Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th December 1728
John
Gray
proceedingsdefend
, of St. Giles's Cripplegate
, was indicted for
feloniously stealing 2 Leaden Weights
, on the 26th of November
last, the Goods of
Mary
Sceney
proceedingsvictim
.
John
Goodfellow
< no role >
depos'd, That he saw the Prisoner fall with the Weights near the Prosecutor's Door, and that presently after he being stopp'd with them, and several people coming with him, he went into the Prosecutor's Shop, where he said they were given him by a Man; but this appearing to be only an idle Tale, the Jury found him
guilty to the value of 4 s. 10 d.
[Transportation. See summary.]