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Mercy, Recommendation to

Mercy, Recommendation to. It has for many years been common for a jury in finding a prisoner guilty, especially where the crime is murder, to accompany their verdict by a recommendation of the prisoner to

Middlesex, Bill of

real, provided the defendant was an officer of the Court, or in the custody of the marshal, or prison-keeper of the Court. in proceedings against prisoners or officers of the Court, the actions were said to be

Open Court

open Court [(English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, s. 12], but not so the place where they commit a prisoner for trial at assizes or sessions (Indictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 19). Whether a coroner's court is an

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Pardon

and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire

Penal Servitude

punishment for the particular offence) being not less than three years, and that the work done by the prisoner in the case of 'hard labour' is done within the prison, but in the case of penal servitude

Peremptory Challenge

of challenge to a certain number of jurors without showing any cause. This privilege is granted to a prisoner in cases of treason and felony, but not misdemeanour, and is denied to the Crown. In treason a

Poor laws

which is the (English) Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 25). If a prisoner on his release after the termination of his sentence is likely to need poor law relief, an order

Prohibited article

Prohibited article, means an article the introduction or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act. [Prisons Act, 1894.]

Ringing the changes

to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling

Trial

the judicial proceedings before court of session which ends in a judgment of acquittal or conviction of the prisoner. It means the whole of proceedings including the sentence, Janardhan v. State of Kerala, 1978 Ker LT 546.

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