Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
29th May 1811
382.
WILLIAM
HARPER
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of
John
Robins
proceedingsvictim
, about the hour of twelve, on the night of the 23d of March
, and stealing therein, one hundred and twenty yards of carpetting, value 18 l. his property
.
Mr. Gurney, counsel for the prosecution, declining to offer any evidence, the prisoner was
ACQUITTED
.
First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.