Criminal

Sweeney v X

[1982] ScotHC 1982_JC_70High Court of Justiciary1982

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“LORD JUSTICE-GENERAL (Emslie).—This is a bill for criminal letters by the alleged victim of the crime of rape and of what appears to have been a gruesome and hideous assault in which she was grievous…”

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