TRIAL OF BENJAMIN KNOWLES.
Pp. [xii]+216(last blank), frontispiece, plus 3 plates,, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; ownership stamp and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, endpapers lightly offset and browned, some light foxing; Butterworth & Co. (Australia), Limited, Edinburgh, n.d.[1933?]. Australian edition. Notable British Trials series. *Knowles was tried and sentenced for the murder of his wife in the Chief Commissioner's Court of Ashanti, Ghana, in 1928. His conviction caused an outcry, because he was tried under the local system, without defence counsel, without a jury, and without right of appeal. Item #145183
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