Reference
QSR1919/3/2/1a (i) (ii)
Title
(i) Notice of Appeal
(ii) Summary Jurisdiction
Date free text
31st May 1919
Production date
From: 1919 To: 1919
Scope and Content
(i) Notice of Appeal, to William Howard & Edward Taunton Williams, Clerk of summary jurisdiction sitting at Bedford .
Take notice that I the undersigned intend to enter & prosecute an appeal at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Bedford, against a certain conviction bearing the date 31st May 1919 whereby William Marson was convicted of having on or between the 6th & 9th May 1919 at Goldington unlawfully caused unnecessary suffering to a certain animal to wit a horse by ureasonably omitting to provide it with prpoer care & attention & was adjudged for the said offence to be imprsoned in His Majesty's Prison for One month with Hard Labour.
The general grounds upon which i the said William Marson intends to appeal are as follows
1) That I am not guilty of the offence alleged
2) That the evidence given on the hearing before the Court was not sufficient to support the said conviction.
3) The judgment of the court was against the weight of the evidence
4) Before the conviction of myself the Magistrates improperly received from Superindendent Purser information as to a previous conviction against myself by Bedford Borough Justices
Taken this 2nd June 1919
W Marson
(ii) The Sunmmary Jurisdiction at the Shire Hall for the Petty Sessional Division on 31st May 1919; William Marson of Rutland Road Bedford a Horse dealer (the defendant) is this day convicted for tha he on & between 6th & 9th May 1919 at Goldington id unlawfully cause unnecessary suffering to a certain animal to wit a horse by omitting to provide it with proper care & attention.
It is adjudged that the defendant for this offence be imprisioned in His Majesty's Prison at bedford & kept to hard labour for 1 month.
signed Walter Harter justice of the Peace
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