§ "Was there, before the act passed, any reluctance in prosecutors to prosecute for this offence, or in jurors to convict, if the evidence was complete?
§ The Recorder.
§ "I am not aware of the least reluctance in prosecutors to come forward and prosecute, as the law formerly stood, nor did I ever know a jury loth to convict, when the evidence was complete.
§ The Common Serjeant.
§ "The above-mentioned statute applied to any value exceeding one shilling, and 644 in prosecutions where the value of the stolen articles was very trifling, I have observed a reluctance injuries to find the prisoners guilty of privately stealing; but in cases, not of that description, I have not found more unwillingness to apply the law to that species of offenders, than to a thief of any other class.