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feloniously making an assault on <rs type="persName" id="t17830226-14-victim232"> <interp inst="t17830226-14-victim232" type="role" value="proceedingsvictim"></interp>
James Godlaman <interp inst="t17830226-14-victim232" type="surname" value="Godlaman"></interp>
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, on the King's highway, on the <rs id="t17830226-14-cd80" type="crimeDate">28th day of January</rs>
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last, putting him in corporal fear and danger of his life, and taking from his person, and against his will, two ounces of tea, value 8 d. half a pound of lump sugar, value 4 d. half pound moist sugar, value 3 d. and three halfpence farthing, the goods, chattles, and monies of the said James </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>What are you? - A <rs id="t17830226-14-viclabel81" type="occupation">gardner's labourer</rs>
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; on the 28th of January, about eight in the evening, I was going home about one hundred yards from the Admiral Keppel's Head, on the <rs type="placeName" id="t17830226-14-crimeloc82">Fulham road</rs>
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; I passed a man, he wished me a good night, and then I met the prisoner, and I was going to wish him a good night, and he took me by the collar, and demanded my money, I told him I had only seven farthings; with that he put his hand into my pocket and took it out; he told me if I made any disturbance, he would blow my brains out; I had two ounces of tea in this pocket, and half a pound of lump sugar, and half a pound of moist; there was another man that took the tea and sugar away from me who came up to his assistance; they tore my my shirt, they were with me the value of five minutes, they unbuttoned my breeches, and searched quite under my hams, and tore my breeches all down.</p>
<p>Court. Had they any weapons? - Not that I saw.</p>
<p>Court. Had you ever seen the prisoner before.</p>
<p>Court. Never saw him before, I have a more perfect knowledge of him than the other, by taking a chew of tobacco out of his box.</p>
<p>Court. Was it moonlight? - No, it was a starlight evening.</p>
<p>Court. How long after was it that you saw the prisoner again? - On the Wednesday week following.</p>
<p>Court. Where did you see him? - At the George after he was taken, he was taken up by the patrol on suspicion; about half an hour after seven, I saw him that night.</p>
<p>How did you happen to see him? - The patrol came after me, and I went to see him.</p>
<p>Court. Then they shewed you this man? There was this man and two others.</p>
<p>Did you know any of them then? - Yes, I knew this man, I told him he was the man that stopped me, he said I was mistaken in the person.</p>
<p>Court. Should you have known him if you had seen him any where else, or did<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="178302260034"></xptr>
you only think it was him, because he was taken up on suspicion by the patrol? - If I had seen him amongst an hundred men I should have known him.</p>
<p>Court. Could you see a person by starlight, at eight in the evening, on the 28th of January, so as to know him again? - Yes, because I had my eye on him during the time I was taking the chew of tobacco, I had a full view of his face all the time he was with me.</p>
<p>Did you know the other two men? - I was almost as positive to the other men, as I am to him, one was behind the hedge.</p>
<p>And are you as positive to the man that was behind the hedge? - Yes; by his dress, by his red jacket.</p>
<p>Could you undertake to know the man that was behind the hedge? - I will not swear to either of the other, but I think I should know him.</p>
<p>Can you under the circumstances, under which you saw him, and by that light undertake to swear that this is one of the men that robbed you? - Yes, my Lord, that is the man that stopped me.</p>
<p>Jury. Whether he gave information of the robbery, or a discription of the man? I did not.</p>
<p>How came the patrol to come to you? They heard of it.</p>
<p>Jury. Were there any lamps on that part of the road? - No.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I went town on the Tuesday evening, the same evening that Godlaman was robbed, and I met these three men, one of them wished me a good night; but I walked into the middle of the road; I know nothing of Godlaman's robbery.</p>
<p>Were you there when he went to look at these men, when they were taken up on suspicion? - No.</p>
<p>SAMUAL MAYNARD sworn.</p>
<p>I know no more of it than through the information I had on the road; I took this man and two others; I had no information from Godlaman, I did not find any thing on these men, they had no arms of any kind.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Please you, my Lord, me and my two comrades had been as far as Wallham Green, I am as innocent as the child unborn of the fact.</p>
<p>The prisoner called Serjeant Gabriel who gave him a good character.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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