Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th January 1788
99.
JOHN
PEARSON
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing, on the 3d of January
, one bacon ham, containing eighteen pounds, value 12 s.
the property of
Charles
Pearcey
proceedingsvictim
.
CHARLES
PEARCEY
< no role >
sworn.
I observed the prisoner going out of my larder door, with a bacon ham, on the 3d of January.
WILLIAM
WARREN
< no role >
sworn.
I saw the prisoner come out of the house with something in his hand; he walkedon, I did not see him stopped; Mr. Pearcey came out of the door, I told him there was the man, and Mr. Pearcey stopped the man; he was never out of my sight till he was stopped.
(The ham produced and deposed to.)
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I never was in the house, I was on the other side of the way.
Jury. What time in the evening was it? - A quarter before six.
Court. Was this man known here before? - No.
GUILTY
.
Whipped
.
Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.