| Reference Number | t17770409-53 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Corporal > whipping |
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312. THOMAS BRAIN was indicted for stealing a cloth waistcoat, value 3 s . the property of Thomas Fidman , March 17th .
I am under-servant to Mr. Fuller who keeps the Crown at Hounslow : I left a waistcoat in the yard; my fellow-servant informed me that he saw the prisoner go over the backgate and thought he had got something; I pursued and took him, and found the waistcoat on him.
[It was produced in Court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]
' John Lewis , fellow-servant to the prosecutor,
'confirmed his testimony.'
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I found the waistcoat.
GUILTY .
Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.