GUILTY TURKS
MEANING OF RECENT SENTENCES.
A recent cablegram announced that Env-er Pasha and Talaat'Bey, Turkish leaders during the war, had1 been sentenced to death. Discussing this matter to-day, Mr. Jxistice Chapman said that the fact that they had been so sentenced in their absence did not mean much. "They .are probably stowed away in somo neutral country, safe for the present," ho said. ''In a.ny case, tbe sentence is not so deadly as it looks. By Turkish law, as> under most systams save our own, a criminal who does not appear on his trial may be condemned in absentia. This has really very little effect. Under that system there is a, period of limitation for overy crime, and if a man is not arrested within that period he cannot be tried. Limitation for criminal prosecutions is, sa-v-e in a very few cases, unknown to English law. When a man has been condemned in his absence- under Turkish law his subsequent arrest annuls the judgment so passed; its value is that it has the effect of stopping t,he running of limitation, and that is tho real reason why the courts are asked to pronounce it."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18, 22 July 1919, Page 8
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