(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The petition that a new trial be granted Oscar Slater, who was released from Peterhead prison after serving eighteen years on the charge of having murdered an aged Glasgow woman, has been granted. The case was referred to the Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal. It is expected that the court will be asked to hear new evidence in the endeavors which are being made to establish Slater’s innocence.
Slater’s release was made after a committee of the House of Commons had declared that in their judgment Slater was unjustly convicted.
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