CONVICTIONS QUASHED
London, Sept. 26. The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed .the convictions of Rawling Tearse, Lambert Heaton Lee, and James Ritchie Haston, members of a Trotskyite organisation, who were sentenced, the first two to 12 and the last to six months’ imprisonment on charges of furthering the Tyneside apprentices’ strike against the Bevin pit ballot scheme.
Mr Justice Wrottesley held that the jury at Newcastle was misdirected. Mrs Angel Rosaline Ethel Keen was granted an extension of time for her appeal against her conviction.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 September 1944, Page 5
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