Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) accused or ‘framed’ on false evidence.

1900		Flynt & Walton Powers That Prey 68: The men of light and leading who had objected to other men’s getting their little bills ‘jobbed’ found it impossible to get their own little bills ‘jobbed’.
1912		D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 95: By watching closely and by having a friend keep tally of his task with him as he delivered the boxes of ‘cops’ [...] he satisfied himself that he was being ‘jobbed’.
1927		(con. 1914) H. Asbury Gangs of N.Y. 343: His friends insisted that he had been jobbed.
1931–4		D. Clemmer Prison Community (1940) 333/1: jobbed, vi. To be convicted on a false charge.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).