Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
20th September 1797
547.
MARGARET
COOK
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
Alexander
Cameron
proceedingsvictim This name instance is in set 03798.
, about the hour of seven in the afternoon of the 1st of September
, the said Alexander and others of his family being therein, and stealing two linen sheets, value 1l. and a woollen blanket, value 7s.
the property of the said Alexander.
The prosecutor not being able to swear to the property, the prisoner was
ACQUITTED
.
Tried by the first London Jury, before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.