THE RIGHT TO KILL
TWO FRENCH MURDER CASES. ACQUITTALS IN EACH, (United Frees Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 8. (Received Nov. 8, atlo p.mi) The right to kill has been admitted by two more French juries, acquittals being secured in the cases of Lewis Marchland, aged 18, who killed his father .Because of cruelty, and in the case of Joseph Amar, who shot his sweetheart because she brought about his financial ruin. Mhrchland’s plea was that his father enraged him to the. point of killing because his daughter was slow with the coffee, and he was consistently cruel. Amar’s counsel eloquently detailed bow the dead woman insisted on changing from town to town, ■ involving Amar in financial loss, which culminated in a fatal scene when she demanded a far coat. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 13
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131THE RIGHT TO KILL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 13
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