Sentence examples for sheep stealing from inspiring English sources

Thomas Childerly was convicted of sheep stealing at the Huntingdon assizes in 1818 and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to deportation for life.

Critics say attendance figures at new churches rarely represent genuine new growth, but are largely due to "sheep stealing" – poaching existing members of other congregations – and attracting students looking for a new place to worship after leaving their "home church".

The old man refused to confess to something he had not done and spent several weeks chained up in jail before a jury - hand-picked by Sir Herbert Lloyd, of course - convicted him for sheep stealing.

You could be hanged for stealing a sheep, but you would not also be charged with conspiracy to commit sheep stealing, willful evasion of taxes on stolen sheep and diminishing the civil rights of the sheep owner.

As the years past neighbouring shepherds finally decided to put an end to Macphee's sheep stealing, and the sheriff sent two officers to confront Macphee.

Historically, the word "witch" was conceived to mean someone who practices in petty theft, sheep stealing, and the like, but by the 16th century it came to represent women who went to bed with Satan and were hellbent on bringing down the church.

Survivors say Shia mosques were blown up, their houses burnt and their sheep stolen.

This sheep stole the show (and baby Jesus).

They were up again last year, by a more modest 4%, when about 69,000 sheep were stolen.

At least 160 sheep were stolen in the village of Wool in Dorset in early November.

Remember Daryl, the farmer's son whose sheep was stolen in episode one?