ABSTRACT
The sentence of the Provincial Court was subject to appeal in the High Court, and the provincial governor had instructed Niels Lind to ask the prisoners whether they wished to lodge an appeal. The High Court confirmed the majority of the sentences past by the Provincial Court but mitigated some of them. The stipulation made by the hundred and Provincial courts that the two dead nightmen’s names should be hung on sacks on the gallows was overturned by the judges in Copenhagen. Although many death sentences were passed at that time, the death penalty was not something the Crown took lightly. Niels Lind, as we have seen, had ordered things in such a way that the hundred court passed sentences in the form of fines that would be used for the children.
