This knocked the bluff out of the ex-convict and he submitted, to arrest in silence.
The laws were imperfect; it was difficult to convict witnesses, and the prisons were mere pens, out of which criminals could escape with small effort.
Common report made him a party to the murder of the victim; but, although circumstances pointed to his guilt, evidence sufficient to convict him was never found, and he was not molested.
Some questions with Switzerland in regard to pauper and convict emigrants have arisen, but it is not doubted that they will be arranged upon a just and satisfactory basis.
If possible legislation should be passed, in connection with the Interstate Commerce Law, which will render effective the efforts of different States to do away with the competition of convict contract labor in the open labor market.
Still, as the offense becomes better understood and the committing of it partakes more of studied and deliberate defiance of the law, we can be confident that juries will convict individuals and that jail sentences will be imposed.
Juries did not willingly convictthe sharers in Penruddock's rebellion.
Burnet observes, that to empower a justice of peace to convict without a jury, was thought a great breach on the principles of the English constitution.
The latter tells us in his Life, 189, that the king was displeased at the insolence of the Romish party, and gave the judges general orders to convict recusants.
That is to proclaim him a convict and to ruin Lucien's memory!
To live, the convict must work, for he does not come out of prison with a fortune.
He had done so using a reciprocal bond, which he sent to me by means of this ex-convict factotum Walter, to have it signed by me.
Believe me, noconvict wishes to be evil; they all wish to be good.
Tiff--was the sort of definition to take one's breath away, having regard to the fact that both the word convict and the word pauper had been used a moment before Flora de Barral ran away from the quarrel about the lace trimmings.
The liberated convict de Barral passed off the solid earth for the last time, vanished for ever, and there was Mr Smith added to that world of waters which harbours so many queer fishes.
The daughter of a poet and the daughter of a convict are not comparable in the consequences of their conduct if their necessity may wear at times a similar aspect.
De Barral the convict took off the silk hat of the financier de Barral and deposited it on the front seat of the cab.
It was so short that when young Powell joined the Ferndale by a memorable stroke of chance, no more than seven months had elapsed since the--let us say the liberation of the convict de Barral and his avatar into Mr Smith.
The convict did not miss him; at the first stroke he killed," said Auguste.
In this colony theconvict population is divided into four categories: 1.
On arrival, each convict receives instruction in some handicraft, chosen by himself or one of the foremen.
The Reformatory is situated at about an hour's journey by rail from Boston, in the midst of fields which are cultivated by a part of the convict population.
An old convict once said to Despine: "When you winked at slight offences against the rules, we used to talk more, but there was no harm in what we said.
The convictpopulation on the island of San Stefano compiled spontaneously a Draconian code to quell internal discord arising from racial jealousies.
Any convictrefusing to work is imprisoned on bread and water.
All earnings are put aside and handed to the convict on his release when he is also provided with suitable employment.
All convict mail is censored, and correspondence whose content is considered unsuitable is withheld.
A convict is paid according to the country's standard wage scales.
One Solomon de Blauenstein was the first to grapple with him, and attempted to convict him of wilful misrepresentation, by recalling to his memory the transmutations by Sendivogius, before the Emperor Frederick III.
He said while in prison, that, if found guilty of murder, he should suffer as an example to duellists in Ireland; but he endeavoured to buoy himself up with the hope that the jury would only convict him of manslaughter.
No particulars of her crimes are given, and against her name there only stands the words, "convict and brynt.
The devil's mark being found upon her, the additional testimony of her guilt was deemed conclusive, and she was "convict and brynt.
In order that criminals so atrocious might no longer pollute the earth, he appointed inquisitors in every country, armed with the apostolic power toconvict and punish.
Abolishing the contract convictlabor system by restricting interstate commerce in prison-made goods.
Of a convict who escaped and was brought back Colton says: "If he will only stop stealing he may run to earth's utmost verge.
Of course there may be no evidence to convict him, yet it seems plain to me that Perry Jounce, the tramp, is the guilty man.
The evidence will convict you, and I do not wish to see you die.
He told me how he was given thirty days in a Texas convict camp, and how they nearly killed him there for being charged with trespassing on the property of the railroad company.
I saw the blood drops of the peon, the broken, bruised and lacerated bodies of human beings leased from the prison to the convict camp.
I somehow felt that the convict camp had almost killed the best within him, for he remarked as we were strolling down the street toward our destination, "I have a nice gun on me.
I intervened, or gave warning, the evidence that will convict Clarke's agent, and will convict Clarke through the agent, is lost.
And that cuff link was damning, irrefutable, incontrovertible evidence, exactly the evidence the police required to convict the guilty man!
The convict woke, sat up in bed and gazed in terror at his host, who was aiming the gun at him, and whose eyes were blazing with anger.
Why, from his actions I just made up my mind the ferocious convict was bent on murdering the lot of us in our sleep, and getting away with everything we had.
He had a gun, and looked ready to hold his own against any runaway black convict he might happen to meet.
And the man your shot scared off, Giraffe, was a barefooted escaped convict too, as the signs seem to prove!
If a convict escaped from jail, or some camp, who has no third finger on his left hand I'll consider that I've proved my case.
Hemsworth's game was to make him believe that such depended solely on him--that at any moment he could give information of a character sufficient to convict him--and by this tie was he bound to a man he detested with all his hatred.
That, however, is unimportant compared to the more serious fact that a well-paid detective can so pervert trial by jury that it would "convict Christ.
In a society which makes it almost impossible for an ex-convict to earn an honorable living it is no wonder that many of them grasp eagerly at positions offered them as "strike-breakers" and as "special officers.
Would be likely to convict any Republican politician.
Finally the time arrived when the government had evidence which was deemed sufficient to convictmost of the band.
But worse still, the two attorneys that deserted Ortonello on the eve of his trial had all along advised him that his innocence was so evident that no jury would ever convict him.
They could not absolutely convict her of it, but the circumstances seemed very incriminating.
This was offered to the convict Minna as a temporary refuge, and she became the first inmate of the Kaiserswerth institutions.
The new inspector, two assistants, a physician, his assistant, the officer of the convoy and a clerk were sitting in the shade around a table with papers and documents, calling and examining each convict and making entries in their books.
If he proved that he had not killed John Barkley, he wouldconvict himself, at the same time, of having made solemn oath to a lie on what he supposed was his death-bed.
