Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
11th September 1799
384.
JAMES
GOODMAN
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
Clement
Sharp
proceedingsvictim
, he and others of his family being therein, about the hour of four in the forenoon of the 18th of June
, and burglariously stealing three linen sheets, value 30s. and a man's shirt, value 8s.
the property of the said Clement.
(The watchman being dead, and there being no witness to prove the property ever to have been in the possession of the prisoner, he was
ACQUITTED
.
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.