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Tag: death sentence

Posted on 3rd March 2010

The Trial of Peter Miller for Theft by Pickpocketing

This is another trial of a young boy, where Garrow persuaded the jury to use their discretion and reduce the amount involved to avoid a sentence of death or transportation.

Peter Miller (aged nine) was charged at the Old Bailey on 22 April 1789 with feloniously stealing ten shillings in money from the person of Thomas May.

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