The Trial of Harold Jones

Harold confessed to the murders of freda burnell and florence. He said he could not disobey the commands of a demon in his head. The judge was satisfied that although harold jones was not normal, he was sane enough to understand that he had confessed to his crimes. Harold would be imprisoned for an indeterminate period. At 15 years old, harold was beneath the legal age to receive capital punishment as a sentence. If the trial extended beyond his sixteenth birthday on january eleventh, 19 22, a guilty verdict would result in harold facing the death penalty. By pleading guilty to both murders before he turned 16, Harold saved himself from