"The prosecutor states that I gave him the bad half crown, which I admit, but not with a guilty knowledge; and he put me in the tap-room, where he says there were no other persons, but I can positively swear there were ten or a dozen seamen??????the bucket spoken of was under a form, and before that form was a table, and I wish to ask whether it is possible that I could throw eight half-crowns unde" . . . .