Broadcast: Not known

Starring: Maurice Franklin

Added: Apr 22 2005

Most of you have heard of the so-called unwritten law, so called because Jury’s frequently refuse to convict a husband who kills his wife’s paramour on the mistaken supposition that tradition upholds them. In this trial you will hear one of the most noted of these cases, the trial of Arthur Phillips indicted for murder in the first degree after he had shot and killed Harold Moorhead. Both the defendant and his victim were prominent figures in public life; both were well born and well to do. Listen carefully to the evidence and ask yourself how you would have judged the defendant guilty or not guilty…