Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Charles Jobson. Court and date of trial: Perth Circuit Court held...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/101/62
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- HO 17/101/62
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1838
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Prisoner name: Charles Jobson.
Court and date of trial: Perth Circuit Court held in April 1838.
Crime: Assault - struck another boy with a blow with a pen knife.
Initial sentence: Six months' imprisonment.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil. "I see no ground."
Petitioner(s): Prisoner; James Thomson, 21 April 1838, Minister.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Punishment severe for crime; received great provocation before he struck the blow; previous good character; widowed mother; respectable family; respectable connections; spent a month in prison before trial.
Other papers: Certificate, 18 April 1838, from Will Young as to good character of prisoner.
Certificate, 20 April 1838, from W Stewart as to good character of prisoner.
Certificate, 20 April 1838, from Dr Patrick Simmons as to respectable connections.
Certificate, 20 April 1838, from Rob Stirling as to good conduct of prisoner.
Letter, 20 April 1838, from Baxter & Malcolm certifying prisoner served an apprenticeship with them and he was provoked.
Additional Information: Dundee Jail.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Sy 11
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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