Benjamin Hawston (30) pig dealer, and Robert Bagg (21) labourer, were charged with assaulting one Robert Nudds, at Carlton Rode, putting him in bodily fear and stealing from his person £1 2s, a purse and a house key, on the 16^th of April 1855.

It appeared that on the 16^th of April, the prosecutor, who is a labourer, went to a beer-house at Carlton Rode where he saw the prisoners and a man named Rockett with whom he had some beer......had £1 3s 1 ½d with him when he went into the house of which he spent 10d. About ten o'clock he left the house to go home with a man named Rush who soon left him..over taken by the prisoners, who took hold of his arms....and “put him down”..took him off the ground and put him “broadside” by a ditch, into which he went head over heels. Bugg then went away but Haunton remained. Another person came and helped the prosecutor to Haunton's father's house, when he found he had lost his purse..then put to bed and remained there till the next morning. Afterwards he saw Haunton opposite the Forncett SOAP-HOUSE, who said to him I suppose you have been after a warrant”. The purse was found by a woman. The prosecutor was drunk at the time and the morning after the robbery he said he did not know who robbed him, the prisoners were acquitted.