Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Pickering. Court and date of trial: Lincolnshire Lent Assizes,...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/54/128
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This record is about the Prisoner name: John Pickering. Court and date of trial: Lincolnshire Lent Assizes,... dating from 1831 Sept 23 - 1831 Oct 20 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1831 Sept 23 - 1831 Oct 20
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Prisoner name: John Pickering.
Court and date of trial: Lincolnshire Lent Assizes, Lincoln March 1831.
Crime: Assault with intent to ravish the person of Ann Roberts, aged 5 years, at Langtoft, Lincolnshire on 22 April 1830.
Initial sentence: One year's imprisonment.
Annotated: Mr Baron Vaughan recommends the remission of the remainder of the punishment; pardon. Remission prepared 8 December 1831.
Petitioner(s): Two petitions from the Reverend I Mossop, Vicar of Langtoft, Lincolnshire, convict's priest; C Hodgson.
Grounds for clemency: Not guilty; the victim lied under pressure from her mother; the convict has advanced cancer of the neck and is expected to die shortly.
Other papers: Affidavit dated 20 May 1831 concerning the examination of witnesses. Letter from G Lamb at the Home Department to Baron Vaughan, trial judge, enclosing the above documents and requesting his report on the case.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- IQ 15
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- English
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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