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Accomplice

Accomplice [fr. complice, Fr., complex, Lat., bound up with one in a project, but always in a bad sense], one concerned with another or others in the commission of a crime, Hawk. P.C. 87. An accomplice...

Counter

Counter, the name of two prisons in London, the Poultry Counter and Wood Street Counter, afterwards consolidated into one new-built prison, for the use

Costs

(c. 15), as amended by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914 (c. 58), s. 10(4), and the Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 1930 (c. 32), now contains all the provisions relating to this matter, and by ss. 1

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Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)

has power [s. 4, see R. v. Ettridge, (1909) 2 KB 24] to increase the sentence on the prisoner, and the prisoner has (s. 11) the right to be present on the hearing of his appeal, except

Contracting State

Central Government with the Government of such country or place through a treaty or otherwise for transfer of prisoners from India to such country or place and vice versa and includes any other Government of such country

Charge

by jury; the periodical address of a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy; the taking proceedings against a prisoner; a commission. To lay a duty upon any one, to acquaint any with the nature of their duty.

Challenge

criminal cases, challenges may be made, either on the part of the Crown, or on that of the prisoner, and either to the whole array, or to the separate polls for the very same reasons that they

Assize, or assise

gaol delivery, directed to the judges and the clerk of assize or associate, empowering them to try every prisoner in the gaol committed for any offence whatsoever, so as to clear the prisons. (3) Of Nisi Prius,

Acquittal

him, and the duty of seeing that he is at once discharged is upon the governor of the prison, and he will be liable for any illegal act of the prison warders though done without his knowledge,

Day-rule, or day-writ

Day-rule, or day-writ, a permission to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in

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