Reference
QSR1918/4/2/2o
Title
Appeal - Philip Folkes -v- Harriet Palmer
Date free text
13th July 1918
Production date
From: 1918 To: 1918
Scope and Content
To Harriet Palmer and to Edward Taunton Williams the Clerk of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting at Bedford in the County of Bedford.
Take Notice that I the undersigned intend to enter and prosecute an appeal at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Bedford in and for the County of Bedford against a certain conviction bearing date the Thirteenth day of July One thousand nine hundred and eighteen and made by the Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting at the Shire Hall Bedford in the said County whereby I the said Philip Folkes was convicted of having on the Second day of April One thousand nine hundred and eighteen at the parish of Kempston in the said County unlawfully assaulted and beat one Harriet Palmer and was adjudged for the said offence to be imprisoned in His Majesty’s Prison at Bedford and there kept for the space of twenty eight days.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the general grounds upon which I the said Philip Folkes so intend to appeal as aforesaid are as follows that is to say : -
1. That I am not guilty of the offence alleged.
2. That the evidence given on the hearing before the said court of Summary Jurisdiction was not sufficient to support the said conviction.
3. The judgement of the said Court was against the weight of evidence.
Dated this 18th day of July in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and eighteen
(signed) Philip Folkes
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