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Heat of passion
Recent CR 472: (2006) 4 CRJ 437. Subsequent procedures did not impose a heavier penalty than the indeterminate sentence imposed by the trial judge and did not go beyond the sentence of the court. Indeed it is
Pardon
on certain charges of obtaining rings and other Articles by false pretences with intent to defraud, and was sentenced to seven years penal servitude; We in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto us, are Graciously pleased
Judgment
Establishment, AIR 1980 SC 1510 (1514): (1980) 3 SCC 435: (1980) 3 SCR 982. It includes decree, order, sentence or determination of any Court, Tribunal, Judge or Judicial Officer. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, R. 2 (1) (k)]
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Penal Servitude
in force when this section comes into operation [5th Aug., 1891] a Court has power to award a sentence of penal servitude, the sentence may, at the discretion of the Court, be for any period not less
Parole
Parole is not a suspension of sentence, but is a substitution, during continuance of parole, of lower grade of punishment by confinement in legal custody
Trial
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. Means the examination and determination of a cause by
Or
must have been used, Morgan v. Thomas, (1882) 9 QBD 643 (645), per Jessel (MR). Or, in the sentence any 'any person concerned in any such offence shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding three times
Murder
as a felon.'--(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 1. See SENTENCE OF DEATH. The execution, formerly public, has taken place in prison since 1868. See CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. On the
Sessions of the peace
Criminal Justice Act, 1925, s. 25, a person who pleaded guilty or admitted the offence can appeal against sentence imposed. An appeal to quarter sessions lies from a Court of summary jurisdiction in respect of any order
Prerogative of mercy
that enactment was made unpardonable by the King. The Prerogative of Mercy was frequently invoked to alter the sentence, either to obviate the necessity for the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason, or
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