Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
30th August 1786
710.
JOHN
SKEGGS
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
feloniously stealing, on the 22d day of August
, two printed books bound in leather, value 3 s.
the property of
Thomas
King
proceedingsvictim
.
The prisoner was taken with the books upon him.
GUILTY
.
To be whipped
.
Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.