APPEAL OF DEATH AND ITS ABOLITION

Authors

William Renwick Riddell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Appellate Division

Abstract

The Appeal of Death-or, as it is sometimes called, the Appeal of Murder, because it was generally invoked in cases of murder although cases of manslaughter were also within its scope-was an interesting survival of ancient law which continued its existence in England until a little more than a century ago, and which, when it fell, brought down a mass of crumbling and antiquated rubbish, which served no good purpose and might-sometimes did-do harm.

Recommended Citation

William R. Riddell, APPEAL OF DEATH AND ITS ABOLITION, 24 Mich. L. Rev. 786 (1926).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol24/iss8/3