229. Mary Maschal proceedingsdefend , spinster , was indicted for that she on the king's highway on Mary the wife of William Jackson < no role > did make an assault, one pocket-apron, no value, and 18 shillings in moneys numbered, from her person did steal, take, and carry away , February 25 .

Mary Jackson proceedingsvictim deposed, she was in company with James Stevens < no role > about half an hour after 12 at night at the corner of Suffolk Street, by the Hay-market ; the Prisoner knocked her down, took her pocket-apron with the money mention'd in it, and ran away.

James Stevens < no role > , a Sailor, deposed, he was so affrighted that he ran away, and could give no account of the robbery ; that he ran about for near 2 hours, and could find no watchman.

Edward Milbourne < no role > , who came in court accidentally, deposed, he had known the prosecutor many years, and that she had been a common street-walker, and new keeps a house of ill fame in Prince's Court, Hedge Lane, the regulator of the watch had before deposed, the prisoner was a common prostitute, and had said, he knew no ill of the prosecutor, but to that Mr. Milbourne said he must know as well as he to the contrary, for which this regulator of the watch was justly blamed by the court.

Acquitted .