A JURY’S BLUNDER.
FRENCH BANDIT'S TRIAL.
GETS DEATH SENTENCE.
MISTAKE RECTIFIED LATER. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day 12.55 p.m.) PARIS, July 24. Owing to the jury’s blunder a bandit, Alphonse Mourey, was sentenced to death in error at the Seine Assizes. Mourey was charged with firing at the police when arrested for robbery. Under French law this is punishable by death, even if the police were not hit. The jury was equally divided on the capital charge, which was equivalent to a verdict of no, but the jury’s written verdict handed to the Judge said “yes.”' After the Judge had pronounced the sentence the jury realised its blunder and met agajn and decided to inform the authorities. Mourey thus realised his good fortune.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10168, 25 July 1924, Page 5
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124A JURY’S BLUNDER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10168, 25 July 1924, Page 5
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