The Archive · 1923

THE JUDGE'S SUMMING

His Lordship, in summing up, first pointed out that people who aid and abet others in the cow-mission of a crime of violence are themselves guilty of the. crime. There was no doubt a crime of violence had been committed here, and the marvel was that the complainant was alive to-day. They started with the position that this man had been the victim of an appalling and murderous attack, but sympathy should not run against the prisoner simply be-

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