THE LAW’S LONG ARM
CRIME OF,TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO
Twelve judges sat in Edinburgh High Court in July to give judgment on the appeal of a Leith man who was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for bigamy committed 23 years ago. The appeal raised the question whether there was “prescription” of _ crime in the law of Scotland. “Prescription” is a word employed in Scottish law in the sense in which “ limitation ” is used in England and America to express that operation of the lapse of time by which obligations are extinguished or titles protected. It was argued on the man’s behalf that be could not be prosecuted, and a decision of 1773 was invoked in support of that argument. The court, however, by a majority dismissed the appeal, holding that there was no prescription of crime in Scotland.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 12
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