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Prisoner name: Richard Grindall. Court and Date of Trial: Gloucester Summer Assizes,...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/41/31

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HO 18/41/31

Date

1841

Description

Prisoner name: Richard Grindall.

Court and Date of Trial: Gloucester Summer Assizes, August 1840.

Crime: Assault.

Initial sentence: 6 months imprisonment.

Outcome: Nil.

Petitions and letters: Grindall says that he was found guilty of assaulting the prosecutrix, Ann Bird, but protests his innocence. They were walking across a field to the Cambridge Inn when the woman accused him of stealing her handkerchief and said she would swear a rape against him. He denies any improper conduct and encloses declarations relating to his claim that the prosecutrix falsely swore that she was a married woman.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

41/31

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Open Document, Open Description

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HO 18

Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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