We know that ninety per cent of the men on that list right there are going to be convicted of a crime of violence inside the next five years, right?
In this state, if a man is convicted of a felony for a fourth time, a life sentence is mandatory.
He would be easily convicted of the first charge by his overt act in taking part with the bolters from the character of the ticket he sustains and from the declarations of the body of his associates.
When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
No Person shall be convictedof Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
And in a few days you will be a convicted felon, with the broad-arrow on your clothes, my man!
John the Baptist had not made mention of this elegant little dwelling, but this convicted legionary glanced uneasily over its furniture and gimcracks.
Alexander Russell, the foot soldier, who was capitally convicted for a street robbery in January sessions, was reprieved for transportation; but having an estate fallen to him, obtained a free pardon.
Charlesworth and Cox, two solicitors, convicted of forgery, stood on the pillory at the Royal Exchange.
Now, it is a small thing to be convicted of an error--a just thing and a profitable to have it detected and exposed; but it is a painful thing to find you have overrated the moral character of your townsmen.
I was rather puzzled at the moment; and it was not till long after, when I read Mr. Moore’s Confessions, that I realized of what crimes I had convicted myself in his eyes by my too careless avowal.
But the fact that the charge on which he was convicted was totally unjustifiable does not in any way imply that Cromwell was wrongly condemned.
He stands convicted of a tolerance of demoniac cruelty, not only in this case, but in the prison-ships, and his general administration.
Our case indeed is, in another point of comparison, but too much like that of the convicted rebel.
It is like the Tychonic astronomy, encumbered and self-convicted by its own complicated relations and useless perplexities.
An Indian, convicted of murdering a monk, some three years previously, was condemned to death.
But why should one who has often been tried, but has never been convicted of crime, deserve to incur criticism any the more on that account?
I assess my own penalty at anything'--a metaphor from the practice of the law-courts, which allowed a convicted prisoner to propose an alternative penalty to that suggested by the prosecutor.
But a larger question arises when we find him arraigned for embezzling a sum of money brought to Athens by a fugitive defaulter from Alexander's treasury, and moreover convicted of the embezzlement.
This is why I contend that it is illogical and unhistorical to argue that because Demosthenes was an honourable man and a patriot, therefore he could not have done what he was convicted of doing by the Areopagus[152:1].
Just as the heralds of our own day are often convicted of forging the generations which connect some wealthy upstart with an ancient house, so it is in Greek history.
Penniless and lowly Englishmen, arrested and convicted for any one of the multitude of offenses then provided for severely in law, were transported as criminals or sold into the colonies as slaves for a term of years.
Debs and his comrades were convicted of contempt of court and, without jury trial, imprisoned at a critical juncture of the strike.
Those convicted for robbery usually received a life sentence; they were considered lucky if they got off with five years.
If any one was thrice convicted of such misdeeds, he was given the last and lowest place, where no one was to communicate with him in any way, except that the feasters might throw bones at him if they were so disposed.
There can be little doubt that these men were convicted of treacherous plotting and that the punishment was regarded as merited.
The convicted prisoners sit in a railed-off part of the chapel, and I believe there is a gallery for the women.
Yet it puzzles one to understand why prisoners awaiting trial should be poisoned by such a diabolical invention any more than prisoners who have been convicted and sentenced.
Philip Girard had been convicted of a great crime, and for five long years had worn a felon's garb, and borne the anguish of one set apart from all the world.
He was hurt, somehow, and a certain Mr. Philip Girard was falsely accused and convicted for attempted murder.
You know that he wasconvicted upon the testimony of Lucian Davlin and another?
From this quotation my indulgent reader will see how right were the judges who convicted me for murder; they had really foreseen in me a murderer.
I was convicted justly, although I did not commit the crime--such is the simple and clear truth, and I live joyously and peacefully my last few years on earth with a sense of respect for this truth.
Any Spaniard who is convictedof having fraudulently kept back a quantity of gold not declared to the royal inspectors, suffers confiscation of all the gold in his possession.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convicted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
