TO RESTORE DEATH SENTENCE
JUDGMENT ON APPEAL RESERVED. London, December 19.Judgment in the Beard case has 'been reserved, the Chancellor stating that the Home Secretary had said that the deaili sentence would in any case not be carried out.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [A London message dated December 16 stated that a man was sentenced to death at Chester in October for murdering a thirteen-year-old girl _ under revolting circumstances while drunk. He appealed to the Criminal Court, which reduced the charge to manslaughter, and sentenced accused lo twenty years' penal servitude. On the ground of misdirection regarding the effect of drunkenness on his mental condition, the Crown appealed to the. House of Lords. The At-torney-General argued for restoring the death sentence.] •
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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119TO RESTORE DEATH SENTENCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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