A NOVEL APPEAL
PECULIAR CASE IN BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. United Servio*. (Received December 17, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, December 16. A man who was sentenced to death at Chester in October for murdering a thirteen-year-old girl under revolting oircumstances, while drunk, appealed to the Criminal Court, which reduced the charge to manslaughter and sentenced the accused to twenty years’ servitude on the ground of misdirection regarding the effect of drunkenness on his mental condition. The Crown has now appealed to the House of Lords. The Attornoy-General argues for restoring the death sentence. It is believed that such an appeal is unprecedented.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18282, 18 December 1919, Page 10
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101A NOVEL APPEAL Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18282, 18 December 1919, Page 10
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