5 Minute Sentences for a criminal offence (General)
A report appears in "The Standard" on 8th April 1831
The "offence" took place in the Old Fire Engine Mine owned by Messrs Bennett & Co after the owners sunk a new shaft called Squib Pit which Knight and Hale disputed Bennett & Co could do under Forest mining law and that they needed another Galage (licence) from the Crown which they did not have.
So Knight & Hale started to block the new shaft, they were found out and prosecuted but the prosecutors did not want them to be punished, merely that they did not want it to happen again.
Once found Guilty the Judge said that under an act of Parliament "I cannot fine the prisoners I must imprison them, I shall imprison them for five minutes"
The prisoners waited in court for 5 minutes, then went away
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