Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A criminal appeal was a procedure in English law to bring about the prosecution of an individual accused of some crime. A private individual (the \"appellor\") would accuse another (the \"appellee\") of a crime, without the need for proceedings to be brought by the crown. It possibly descended from the system of weregild.Appeals were among the legal proceedings for which trial by combat was available.An appeal could be used to accuse a subject of high treason."@en }
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- Criminal_appeal comment "A criminal appeal was a procedure in English law to bring about the prosecution of an individual accused of some crime. A private individual (the \"appellor\") would accuse another (the \"appellee\") of a crime, without the need for proceedings to be brought by the crown. It possibly descended from the system of weregild.Appeals were among the legal proceedings for which trial by combat was available.An appeal could be used to accuse a subject of high treason.".