THE CROWBOROUGH MURDER.
APPEAL DISMISSED. (Press Association.) London, April 7. Throughout both the trial and the appeal proceedings Thorn has maintained a most composed bearing. He stood transfixed when Lord Hewart (Lord Chief Justice) announced the dismissal of the appeal. He seemed stunned when the warders removed him from the dock, but immediately broke down in the corridor in a range of sobs and moans, punctuated with cries: "I didn't do it!" Lord Hewart said it was idle to contend that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, which was overwhelming. The Court would long hesitate to hand over the jury's functions to a board of medical experts. Nothing in this case had made it the least desirable to do so.
Dealing with the plea of misdirection, Lord Hewart said the Court was unanimous that Judge Finlay summed up admirably, saying: "To put it plainly, there was nothing in the appeal except in the circumstances that it happened to be against a conviction of murder."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2101, 9 April 1925, Page 5
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