Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to commit for trial; thus fulley n., a trial.

1838		‘Paul Pry’ Oddities of London Life I 204: The boy [...] whispered to the gaoler ‘they arn’t a going to “fully” me, are they?’ ‘You are knocked down for three pennerth at the mill, and no mistake,’ answered the gaoler.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 68: The beak fullied her to the Balie, and a seven pennorth, across the herring ditch.
1850		Morn. Advertiser (London) 22 Aug. 4/4: The constable [...] stated that when he apprehended him, he (the prisoner) said he supposed it would be a ‘fullying’ business, a slang term used by such men, and intended to imply that they should be fully committed for trial.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor III 388/1: At Launceston i was ‘fullied’ by a bench of magistrates and had 100 [lashes].
1879		‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 506: I [...] was tried at Marylebone and remanded for a week, and then fullied (fully committed for trial) and got this stretch and a half.
1891		J. Bent Criminal Life 272: I got 9 moon at the last pulley [sic].
1894		Mirror of Life 22 Dec, 3/1: ‘It won’t have any bearing on young Priggins’ case, he being ‘fullied’ for having housebreaking implements in his possession’.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 31: Fully, ‘to be fulled,’ [sic] to be committed for trial.
1895		J. Caminada Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 17: A few years ago it was common conversation in criminal neighbourhoods to talk of who was for the ‘big fulley’ (assizes), or the ‘little fulley’ (sessions).
1923		Northern Whig 12 Sept. 8/6: I was fullied, and a black-box asked a couple of foont and ten deaner to be my mouthpiece.
1935		Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks n.p.: Big Fully: Assizes.
1936		J. Curtis Gilt Kid 281: They’ll fully me to the Old Bailey, I reckon.