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Prisoner name(s): Joseph Pickard. Court and date of trial: Stafford Lent Assizes...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/132

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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Joseph Pickard. Court and date of trial: Stafford Lent Assizes... dating from 1821 - 1825 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/30/132
Date
1821 - 1825
Description

Prisoner name(s): Joseph Pickard.

Court and date of trial: Stafford Lent Assizes 1821.

Crime: Sheep stealing - Thomas Blood, prosecutor.

Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life and further mitigation to 14 years transportation June 1821.

Gaoler's report: Well behaved on York hulk.

Annotated (Outcome): No further mitigation.

Petitioner(s): James Pickard, brother of Tamworth, [Staffordshire].

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Only crime prisoner ever committed; brother asks for further mitigation.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Dl 49
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14463069/

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HO 17

Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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