CRIMINAL APPEAL SUCCEEDS.
• 0 DEATH SENTENCE SET ASIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrishi (Rec. September 20; 11.30 p.m.) London, September 20. The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the death sentence on Ellison for murdering, his sweetheart, at Clerkenwell on August 10, on tho ground that tho evidence of tho principal witness for tho Crown required corrpboration. This the first tiino a capital conviction has been set aside. Tho British Criminal Appeal Act, 1307, confers the right (under certain conditions) on every person convicted by a jury in England and Wales, not including ai ; coroner's jury, of appealing tq 'Judgc.s bf/the High Court ,aqd , claiming 'n'cquiftal .'and disoharge. i; lr is J thc'.'most notable legal innovation of recent years. The new Court first sat on May 15, 1910, and in the first twelve months of its existence dealt with about 560 cases, totally quashing 2S 'convictions "pr sentences. Aixmt 10,400 persons are sentenced annually'in, jury Courts in England and Wales.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 7
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158CRIMINAL APPEAL SUCCEEDS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 7
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