A CAPITAL CONVICTION
QUASHED BY APPEAL COURT
FIRST CASE ON RECORD
(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.) '*'■ yJSt>NT)ON; :: Septeniher 29. The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the sentence on a man nam ed Ellison for murdering has sweerheart at Clerkenwell on August 19fch, on the ground that the evidence of the principal witness required corroboration.
This is the first time a -capital conviction has been set aside.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10437, 30 September 1911, Page 5
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67A CAPITAL CONVICTION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10437, 30 September 1911, Page 5
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