FOUR TRIALS HELD.
VICTORIA MURDER CHARGE. MELBOURNE, July 29. The jury disagreed at the fourth trial of the charge against Rupert Davies and William John Cody, of having murdered James Edward Sc riven, a Titles Office messenger, on January 31. The prisoners were remanded for a further trial. This. Is the first occasion on which o person in Victoria has been tried four times for a. capital offence. If the new trial proceeds it will be the first time in Australia a person has stood a fifth trial. The recent practice has been to abandon the prosecution after three abortive trials. At the first trial the jury disagreed, the second jury found accused guilty and they were sentenced to death. The appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeals were dismissed, but the appeals to the High Court were upheld and a new trial ordered, which resulted in a disagreement.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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149FOUR TRIALS HELD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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