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Convict, a person found guilty of a crime or offence alleged against him, either by a verdict of a jury or other legal decision. The (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), for abolishing forfeitures for treason and felony enables the Crown to appoint administrators of the Property of any convict sentenced to death or penal servitude for any treason or felony. The administrator has an absolute discretionary power of dealing with the convict' property, Carr v. Anderson, (1903) 2 Ch 279....
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence : a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence : a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence : a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted NOTE: General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate s...
Previous conviction
Previous conviction. The 11th s. of the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), reciting that 'it is expedient to provide for the more exemplary punishment of offenders who commit felony after a previous conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for life and whipping for such subsequent conviction. Penal servitude has since been substituted for transportation, and the whipping is abolished. The (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), by s. 37, authorizes the infliction of penal servitude up to ten years on those committing simple larceny after having been previously convicted of felony and up to seven years if previously convicted of an indictable misdemeanour punishable under the Act or twice summarily convicted of certain other offences; males under sixteen are liable to whipping in addition.Frequently statutes [see, e.g., (English) Licensing Act, 1872, s. 12, as to drunkenness; (English) Road Traffic Act, 1930, s. 13; (English) Tr...
Autrefois convict
Autrefois convict (formerly convicted), plea of. The defence of a person charged with any crime that he has been already convicted of the same crime, entitling the party proving it to a discharge on the ground that nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa. See the principle recognized in s. 33 of the Interpretation Act, 1889; R. v. Sheridan and R. v. Grant, 155 LT 207 and 209, and for form of the plea, see s. 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100)....
Autretois acquit and autrefois convict
Autretois acquit and autrefois convict, they are pleas which are concerned with the judicial determination of an alleged criminal liability and in the case of conviction with the substitution of a new liability, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Kokkiliagada Meerayya, (1969) 1 SCC 161 (165): AIR 1970 SC 771....
autrefois convict
autrefois convict [Anglo-French, formerly convicted] : a defendant's plea stating that he or she has already been tried for and convicted of the same offense ...
convict
convict [Latin convictus past participle of convincere to find guilty, prove, from com- with, together + vincer to conquer] : to find guilty of a criminal offense [was ed of fraud] compare acquit [kÄ n-vikt] n : a person convicted of and serving a sentence for a crime ...
Date of such conviction
Date of such conviction, The phrase 'date of such conviction' occurring in sub-s. (2) of s. 8 of the Representation of People Act,1950 means the date of the initial conviction and not the date of the final conviction. If this phrase was construed to mean the date of the final and ultimate conviction on termination of the entire judicial process in the hierarchy of courts, sub-s. (3) would be redundant. Sub-s. (3) applies to a special category of person mentioned therein, and its language makes it clear that in their case, conviction will not operate as a disqualification unless it becomes final in the course of judicial process, Vidya Charan Shukla v. Purshottam Lal Kaushik, (1981) 2 SCC 84: AIR 1981 SC 547 (550): (1981) 2 SCR 637....
Sentence of a Court
Sentence of a Court, a definite judgment pro-nounced in a criminal proceeding. In the case of indictable offences (except murder, on conviction of which the Court is bound to pronounce sentence of death, by s. 2 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (but see next title), and treason) the extent of the sentence is within a given maximum left to the discretion of the Court, such few maximum sentences as previously were enjoined having been abolished by the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1891. In passing sentence reference should not be made to the unexpired portion of any former sentence, as this has to be served by virtue of s. 9 of the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1864; R. v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 756.See the (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, when in certain cases a verdict of infanticide may be returned, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that, but for the Act, would have amounted to murder.There is an express power of refraining from sen-tencing at once to punishme...
conviction
conviction 1 : the act or process of convicting ;also : the final judgment entered after a finding of guilt [a prior of murder] [would not overturn the ] compare acquittal NOTE: Jurisdictions differ as to what constitutes conviction for various statutes (as habitual offender statutes). Conviction is rarely applied to civil cases. 2 : guilt [the judge will enter a judgment of "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...
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