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Guildhall Justice Room, for sending to the
Central Meat Markets four quarters of beef
and the carcase of a calf in a state of disease.
The prisoner refused to be tried by a
magistrate, and elected to go to the Central
Criminal Court, where he was tried on the
3rd July before the Honourable Mr. Justice
Lawrence. A plea of guilty having been
offered, the man was sentenced to one month's
imprisonment, the judge having taken into
consideration that he had been detained in
custody for a month prior to his trial.
7. On the 18th November, a farmer, of
Sutton, near Guildford, was summoned at the
Guildhall Justice Room for sending the carcase
of a diseased calf to the Central Markets,
and was convicted and fined £50 including
costs or six weeks' imprisonment.
8. On the 18th November, a jobbing
butcher from Diss, in Norfolk, was summoned
for sending eleven pieces of diseased sow pork