FINED FOR BEING ROBBED.

Evening Star, Issue 3231, 28 June 1873, Page 3

FINED FOR BEING ROBBED.

The Birmingham Post says that a man named Jackson has acquired at Sheffield unpleasant experience of the new Licensing ,Act. While in a half-drunken condition, Jackson met with some women whom he treated to gin, one of whom he afterwards charged witn having robbed him of L 37. He was drunk when he preferred the charge at the station, and the woman, when apprehended shortly afterwards, said she knew nothing of the robbery. The stipendiary declined to convict or commit for trial upon the oath of a drunken man, and he astonished the prosecutor by ordering him to stand forwarn to answer a charge of being drunk in a public place. He pleaded that he was not “ fresh. The stipendiary delivered the following instructive address “ I shall fine you 10s and costa for being drunk in a public place. I believe that you were robbed, and it is because I believe you were robbed that 1 impose this'fine. I am only sorry that I cannot impose a heavier penalty. It is an intolerable nuisance that men with large sums of money in their pockets should get drunk and support a class of thieves in the town who are rolling in wealth, and who are enabled to profit better by thieying than they could oy honest lab,or. A man who allows himself to be robbed in the way you have done i« a public nuisance.*'