Notes for: James Stearn

This may refer to either this James Stearn or his father (from the Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, 5 Dec 1835):
Samuel Nightingale was charged with having committed a similar offence on the 10th October last at Trumpington. It appeared by the evidence brought forward to sustain the information that a glass of beer was served by a female in a room of the house where it was drank; after it had been drank, the female said, "you should not have drank it on the premises;" the persons to whom it was served said "never mind fetch us another;" she then fetched another which was also drank in the same room, and pipes of tobacco were also served; there were two other persons in the room smoking; these two persons, John Cock and William Northrop came forward as witnesses for the defendant, and made a statement extremely favourable to Mr Nightingale, as to the unwillingness of Mrs Nightingale (the female before mentioned) to allow the beer to be drank on the premises. The magistrates convicted the defendant in the mitigated penalty of 5l.