CONVICTION SET ASIDE.
DEATH SENTENCES ON YOUTHS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
CHIEF JUSTICE ORDERS NEW TRIAL.
(Received Monday, 8.25 p.m.)
SYDNEY, May 18. *lhe court of Criminal Appeal set aside tie conviction of six youths sentenced to death in connection with the Parramatta case, and ordered a new trial. The Chief Justice said there was at least a possibility that the jury had been under a misapprehension and had assumed to some extent that the accused had to prove consent.
(The Full Court of Appeal recently upheld the appeal of Charles Bennett, aged 15, who received three years' imprisonment for indecent assault on a young Italian woman at Parramatta, when, at the same time, six others were sentenced to death for a capital assault on the same woman. The court quashed the conviction of Bennett on the ground that there was no satisfactory evidence, even of an attempt at assault. The six youths who were sentenced to death were: Henry Rowe, 29; George Thornley, 18; Harold Thornley, 16; Maloney, 19; Percival Tovey, 17 and Rupert Cowell, 16).
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Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 5
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