Prisoner name: James Turner, full name James Thomas Turner. Prisoner occupation:...

Prisoner name: James Turner, full name James Thomas Turner.

Prisoner occupation: Employed by boot and shoe maker.

Court and date of trial: Surrey Lent Assizes, Kingston, March 1832.

Crime: Highway robbery by assaulting Robert Connelly and stealing from him a silver watch, in September 1831, together with George Flynn.

Initial sentence: Death, commuted to transportation for life.

Annotated (Outcome): Nil.

Petitioner(s): The prisoner, undersigned by John Stacey of 5 County Terrace Street, New Kent Road, the prisoner's employer, and two others, testifying to the prisoner's good character, and Robert Connelly of 5 Brewers Court, Bedford [Street?], the prosecutor, testifying that he never saw the prisoner before he was in court.

Two petitions from Mary Waters (or Ann Waters), of 40 Caroline Street, Lambeth, Surrey, wife of Henry Waters, and mother of the prisoner, the first undersigned by five people testifying to her respectability, and Robert Connelly now of 170 Drury Lane, the prosecutor, the second undersigned by ten neighbours of the petitioner.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Deprived of assistance of counsel; mistaken identity; good character; prosecutor recommends mercy; youth; good conduct in New South Wales.

Additional Information: Prisoner transported to New South Wales; tradesman at Muswell Brook, Hunters River.