Miller, Sawney

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Dates 1719-1720
Location London
Vocation Criminal
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 26 December 1719 & 19 March 1720

Known as "Scotch George". Committed to Newgate, 1719,on suspicion of robbing the Bristol mail. Found not guilty by jury, reportedly because one aged juror, determined not to cause a death, brow-beat all the other jurors into acquitting him.