Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th April 1774
213, 214. (M.)
JAMES
TUFFNELL
proceedingsdefend
and
CHARLES
COCKLEY
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were indicted for
stealing a cock Canary bird, value 5 s.
the property of
Joseph
Smith
proceedingsvictim
, March 9th
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The court were of opinion that this charge could not be the subject of a criminal prosecution, they were therefore
Both
acquitted
.