Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Smith. Court and date of trial: Hampshire Special Assizes, Winchester,...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/12
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Prisoner name: John Smith.
Court and date of trial: Hampshire Special Assizes, Winchester, December 1830.
Crime: Machine breaking, namely a threshing machine, together with two men named Woodford and Bryant.
Initial sentence: 12 months imprisonment.
Annotated (Outcome): Remission prepared April 1831.
Petitioner(s): 37 owners and occupiers of land in Litchfield, Hampshire.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; youth; would be re-employed if released; led astray by others.
Other papers: Letter from E H Alderson, trial judge, explaining reason for initial sentence and suggesting it be commuted to four months imprisonment.
Letter from John Iremonger Ekless of Bursledon Bridge, Hampshire, guaranteeing to employ prisoner upon release.
Additional Information: Woodford and Bryant sentenced to three months imprisonment.
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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