JURIES CLAIM RIGHT TO STATE SENTENCES
CRISIS IN FRENCH CRIMINAL PRACTICE f Australian Press Assn. ] PARIS, Dec. 5. Another strange verdict by a Seine jury has increased public astonishment. A grocer, accused of murdering a girl, pleaded drunkenness as his sole excuse. He was guilty on the cleanest of evidence, yet the jury’s verdict was not guilty, and the Judge per force discharged the prisoner. Tho .jury afterwards published the following resolution: “The second time in two days a »Seine .jury finds itself laced with conscientious scruples It desires to return a verdict of guilty’ but is unable to obtain a formal guarantee concerning the penalty. Therefore, it expresses the opinion that the law’ should be reformed in order to give a jury power to define the consequences of its verdict,” The resolution has occasioned a great public outcry. It is evident that a crisis is arising in French criminal procedure when juries claim the right to determine, the sentences.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 290, 7 December 1928, Page 7
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