UNIQUE MURDER TRIAL
AFTER PRISONER’S ACQUITTAL. BATHURST (New Brunswick), March 29 For the first time in the history ct’ British jurisprudence, a man to-day was [faced on trial, with legal sanction, for murder, after having already been aquitted of the charge. Joseph Norman Pitre, for the second time, faced a jury on a charge of murdering Georges Smith, a storekeeper, last April, during a robbery. The retrial was made possible by an amendment to the criminal code
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Grey River Argus, 31 March 1933, Page 3
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77UNIQUE MURDER TRIAL Grey River Argus, 31 March 1933, Page 3
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