30th November 1796
Alexander Leake
Sexual Offences - sodomy
57. ALEXANDER LEAKE (Aged 53.) was indicted for that he, on the 12th of November, upon a certain person to the Jurors unknown, did make an assault, and had a venereal affair with the said person, and him did carnally know, and commit the detestable crime called Buggery.
(The evidence upon this Trial being so indecent, is unfit for Publication.)
[Verdict: Guilty - Punishment: Death]
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.
18th April 1798
Edward Dawson, John Hall
Sexual Offences - sodomy
312. EDWARD DAWSON, Esq. and JOHN HALL were indicted, the first, for that he, on the 6th of March, upon the said John Hall did make an assault, and then and there wickedly and diabolically, and against the order of nature, had a venereal affair with the said John Hall, and then and there carnally knew the said John, and committed detestable and abominable crime, among Christians not to be named, called buggery, with him the said John Hall; and that he the said John Hall was consenting with the said Edward, and permitted the said Edward carnally to know the said John, and committed the detestable and abominable crime of buggery.
[Verdict: Both Not Guilty]
Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Lord KENYON.
11th September 1799
Richard Creeks
Sexual Offences - sodomy
440. RICHARD CREEKS was indicted for sodomy
[Verdict: Not Guilty]
Tried by the London Jury, before Mr. Justice LE BLANC.
