In the- Criminal Appeal Court, London, William Warner, convicted with another man named Brown, at Nowington Sessions, of stealing a bag, and sentenced to three and a half years' penal servitudoand two-dears' police supervision, appealed against his conviction. Evidence was > given at ■ tho trial by Brown, who istated that Warner had been convicted of uttering counterfeit coin. Warner was explaining this matter when ho was stopped at a certain point by the Chairman at the Sessions. On tho ground that the jury might have, been influenced by the introduction of the statement about counterfeit coin the Court of Criminal Appeal allowed / tho appeal, . holding that' there had been a miscarriage of justice. The conviction was accordingly quashed.- .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12
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117Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12
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