Offence: Theft > theft from a specified place
Verdict: Guilty > theft under 1s
Punishment: Transportation
Margaret Hayes , of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields , Widow , was indicted for privately stealing a Pair of Worsted Stockings, Value 2 s. the Goods of Elizabeth Reynolds , the 1st of this instant December . The Prosecutor depos'd, The Prisoner came into her Shop to cheapen Stocking, and took a Pair of, Stockings that hung up for a Show, and ran away with them; but she calling out after her, she was stop'd. Other Evidences depos'd, That they stopp'd the Prisoner, and that the Stockings were drop'd down on the Ground just by her. The Prisoner deny'd the Fact, and that she ever was in the Prosecutor's Shop, but that did not avail. The Jury found her Guilty to the Value of 10 d . Transportation .