Coucke and Goethals:
two Flemish labourers sentenced to death for murder in 1860 by the Court of Assizes [i.e. the equivalent of the Crown Court in England] of Mons, a city in the southern part of the country. The trial and defence were conducted entirely in French. Flamingants defended the innocence of the accused and claimed a miscarriage of justice had taken place on account of a bad translation of a sentence during the trial.

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