A UNIQUE LAW POINT
< r ■■ ■ - APPEAL TO IiKSTORE DEATH SKX.TK.YCti. (Roe. Decemberl7, 7.35 p.m.) ■ London, .December Ui. A man was sentmced. (u (bath at rhrster ill October lor nllirderihg a thirtseu-year-old 'girl under i-evtilliiip "cireumM antes while drunk. Kb appeal ;d to tho Criminal Court, which reduced tl.e (•'large to manslaughter, aiid sentenced, accused to twenty years' pwul servitude on tli? ground of misdirection legnrdiug tho effect of drunkenness on his mental condition. ... The Crown lias now appealed to I lie House of Lowk The Attoraoy-fienera! aigues for restoring the death sentence, h is believed that si.iiih an appeal is unprecedented.—Aus.-X./,. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 9
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103A UNIQUE LAW POINT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 72, 18 December 1919, Page 9
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