Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st May 1760
192, 193. (L.)
George
Barker
proceedingsdefend
and
Francis
Keys
proceedingsdefend
, were indicted for
stealing 100 weight of sugar, value 40 s. the property of
George
Street
proceedingsvictim
, privately in his warehouse
; there was no evidence of the fact, but the accomplice
Joseph
Williamson
< no role >
(see him an evidence, No. 175, 176, in first paper) whose testimony unsupported by evidences of credit, is not sufficient to convict; they were
acquitted
. Barker was a second time indicted for
stealing the like quantity of sugar
, the property of
Anthony
Isles
proceedingsvictim
. ++
Here Williamson again was unsupported in his evidence.
Acquitted
.
Barker was a third time indicted for
stealing the like quantity of sugar, the property of
John
Cotes
proceedingsvictim
, privately in his warehouse
. ++
Here Williamson was again the only evidence.
Acquitted
.