Word Finder - convict

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A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

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A person deported to a penal colony.

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The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.

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A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

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To find guilty

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His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.

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(esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)

Convict mechanics are rarely found ready made.

The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.

About a mile to the south is the convict prison for Scotland.

The convict tried in vain to escape several times from prison.

It was also proposed to give four lectures or concerts a year in convict prisons.

The right to deal with the property of a convict while he is undergoing sentence (but not while he is out of prison on leave) is, by the Forfeiture Act 1870, vested in his administrator.

Immediately west of the harbour are the convict station and Somerset hospital.

It is easy to convict him of having failed to control the glowing passion that was in him.

For many years after its discovery it was used as a convict station.

The isle contains a convict prison with accommodation for about 1500 prisoners.

Witnesses to convict them were, unsurprisingly, hard to find - and when one murder trial fell through, the twins felt untouchable.

The couple hears a news broadcast about an escaped convict with a hook hand.

In the ensuing trial at Richmond the prisoners were released for lack of sufficient evidence to convict, and Wilkinson himself emerged with a much damaged reputation.

This leasing-out system has been carried further in some of the southern states, and has produced the convict camps, which have been much criticized and condemned from the harshness of the discipline enforced, the many abuses that exist and the meagre results other than monetary that have been obtained.

This court has, also, the authority to grant to a convict a licence to be at large upon such security, terms, conditions and limitations as it may require.

A convict parole law went into operation in 1891.

New legislation enabled the Force to use DNA as evidence, instead of relying on direct evidence in order to convict a suspect.

The convict is promptly fired from both the kitchen and the show.

The pardon transmitted by the secretary of state is applied by the supreme court, who grant the necessary orders to the magistrates in whose custody the convict is.

In the vicinity are the Surrey county asylum and a female convict prison.

In 1897 this was supplanted by the contract system, by which a prison commission accepted contracts for convict labour, but the prisoners were cared for by state officials.

In September 1908, after an investigation which showed that many wardens had been in the pay of convict lessees and that terrible cruelty had been practised in convict camps, an extra session of the legislature practically put an end to the convict lease or contract system; the act then passed provided that after the 31st of March 1909, the date of expiration of leases in force, no convicts may be leased for more than twelve months and none may be leased at all unless there are enough convicts to supply all demands for convict labour on roads made by counties, each county to receive its pro rata share on a population basis, and to satisfy all demands made by municipalities which thus secure labour for $100 per annum (per man) paid into the state treasury, and all demands made by the state prison farm and factory established by this law.

They are formed of three judges of the Landgericht and a jury of twelve; and a two-thirds majority is necessary to convict.

The town has rope and carriage factories, and close by is a large tannery, worked by convict labour, and supplying the army.

By eloquence, readiness of wit, and adroit flattery of the jury he contrived to secure his acquittal in the face of the open hostility of the judge - a unique achievement at a time when the condemnation of prisoners whom the authorities wished to convict was a mere matter of course.

Mines were also taken over for public use and worked by slaves or, in later times, by convict labour.

The island is now noted for its leper asylum and its convict establishment.

The reason is, that in order to depose them with some show of legality, it was necessary, as a preliminary, to convict them of heresy, and it began to be seen that their tenacity of power, and the ruses by which they evaded the necessity of abdicating, however harmful might be their consequences, did not in themselves constitute a clearly-defined heresy.

The clay resulting from the weathering of the Dartmoor granite has formed marshes and peat bogs, and the desolation of the district has been emphasized by the establishment in its midst of a great convict prison, and in its northern portion of a range for artillery practice.

The coast of Alaska offers exceptional facilities for smuggling, and liquor has always been very plentiful; juries have steadily refused to convict offenders, and treasury officials have regularly collected revenue from saloons existing in defiance of law.

For example, the employment of women or of children under fourteen in mines and the leasing of convict labour by contract are forbidden, and eight hours must constitute a day's work in state, county or municipal undertakings.

In the colony itself a crisis arose out of the proposal to make it a convict station.

Happily the jury refused to convict, and its verdict saved the nation from the disgrace of meting out the extreme penalty of high treason to an attempt to hold a public meeting for the redress of grievances.

All this was abolished by the Felony Act 1870, which provided for the appointment of an administrator to the property of the convict.

The law was paralysed, for no jury could be trusted to convict even on the clearest evidence, and the National League branches assumed judicial functions.

But the growth of population was extremely slow, and in 1808 a census showed that there were only 3240 people on the island, including officials, military and convicts, and whatever measure of prosperity was enjoyed by the free inhabitants arose from the expenditure by the imperial government upon the convict settlement.

By good conduct a convict may shorten his term of service one month the first year, two months the second year, three months each year from the third to the tenth inclusive, and four months each subsequent year.

The action ranges from rural Essex to London's prisons and convict hulks; from the wilds of British Columbia to the Australian goldfields.

It was named after the former convict prison at Borstal, Kent, where the system was pioneered.

In contrast, the escaped convict of 20 years later is totally unbelievable, a larger than life character in every respect.

There is a convict settlement on Chatham with 1 Apparently derived from the Chinese Kau-liang-Kiang, i.e.

While engaged in exploring with his own eyes the furthest corners of the empire, he fell by the hand of an assassin in the convict settlement of the Andaman islands in 1872.

In 1893 the legislature created a board of four members to be appointed by the governor, one of whom must be a physician, another an attorney, and made it its duty to investigate the case of every convict for whom a petition for pardon is received and then report and recommend to the governor what it deem expedient.

The judge chose to banish the criminal from the community; the convict's exile beginning immediately.

Inmates and those on probation often participate in community service projects such as highway cleanups - this is vital for the condition of our roads, and also can bring discipline and reform into the life of a convict.

Play up your dog's trouble-making nature by dressing him as a convict, devil, or a pirate.

Now, the falsely accused escaped convict was not only wanted by the military, but also by a race of people called Necromongers.

Her mentor was Admiral Paris, the father of Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), the convict who becomes her pilot on Voyager.

She even makes the rebel captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) her second in command, gives the convict Tom Paris a temporary Starfleet commission, and adds two Delta Quadrant natives to her crew as native guides.

A brooding male presides over the household - is he a dangerous lunatic? an escaped convict? a ghost?