Offences: Killing > murder; Killing > murder
Verdicts: Guilty > pleaded guilty
Punishments: Death
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Thomas Billings and Thomas Woods , of St. Mary le bon , were indicted for the Murder of John Hays , the former by striking and bruising the said John Hays on the hinder Part of the Head with a Hatchet, on the 1st of March last, of which he instantly died , and the latter for being accessary to the said Murder . To which Indictment they both pleaded Guilty .