When an owner of a lot has consented to the burial of a body therein, he can not afterward remove the body or deface the tombstone, and to do so would be a criminal offense.
It is a criminal offense to cut trees in a cemetery without right or authority.
Wherever the United States has jurisdiction over cemeteries, it has made it a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to deface a tombstone.
A corporation may be criminally responsible for failure to perform a duty imposed upon it by law, and in many States there are statutes which make it a criminal offense for a corporation to do or fail to do certain acts.
The following session of the legislature corrected the evil by passing a law making it a criminal offense to use another's photograph without that person's consent.
In general, no person may be tried for a criminal offense, of any magnitude, until he has been indicted by a grand jury.
Libel is a criminal offense as well as a tort, while the slander of private persons is not a common law crime; but some forms of slander are crimes by statute.
It is a criminal offense to open or read a sealed telegram, or to tap a telegraph wire in order to read messages in course of transmission.
Under the New York statutes it is a criminal offense for a telegraph employee to divulge the contents of a telegram to any other person than the addressee, except when it relates to unlawful business.
Embezzlement, however, is a criminal offense, and the recovery of the money taken does not affect in any way the right of the state to proceed against the embezzler.
Why, oh why, is the stealing of one kind of property a criminal offense, and another only a civil tort?
It is made a criminal offenseby city ordinance for any persons to appear in public in disguise, and police officers have been instructed to arrest any person appearing in public in disguise.
The examination is conducted as in case of a criminal offense.
The United States constitution and most of the State constitutions declare that no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, except a minor one, "unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criminal offense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
