GERMAN MURDER PLOT
CRITICISM OF VERDICT, LONDON, June b. The acquittal of Dr Grandel and Lieutenant Thormann, who were charged with plotting the murder of General von Seeckt, revealed an extraordinary ieatura of German criminal law'. The judges found, says the correspondent of The Times at Berlin, that while it was clear that both the accused intended that Seeckt should be murdered, they plotted with persons who did not have that intention. German law' lays it down that all persons to a plot must show serious intent to carry it through, whereas Tettenborn and Kopke, whom Grandel and Thormann tried to induce to murder Seeckt, were never serious about it. The newspapers severely criticise the verdict.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 4
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116GERMAN MURDER PLOT Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 4
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