R v Wallace
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r-v-wallace-208-2775349
title:
R v Wallace
text:
R v Wallace (1931) 23 Cr App R 32 is a leading English criminal case, the first time a conviction for murder was overturned on the ground that the verdict "cannot be supported, having regard to the evidence", as provided for by Section 4(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907. The headnote states: "The Court will quash a conviction founded on mere suspicion". William Herbert Wallace, a 52-year-old insurance agent, had been convicted at the Liverpool Assizes in 1931 of the brutal murder of his wife,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
English criminal case
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Wallace
date created:
2008-03-22T16:47:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:26:22Z
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13
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