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" On the way to the jail, the convict overpowered his guard, and escaped.
In order to convict the defendant, you must be certain, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is guilty.
A convict has escaped from prison.
The police are hunting an escaped convict in this area.
The police have arrested him but they don't have a shred of evidence to convict him.
Earl Warren once warned that life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
There wasn't enough evidence to convict him of the crime.
Members of the judiciary are often threatened by those they convict of crimes.
Although we no longer look upon vagrancy as ""The Mother and Root of all Evil"" as our forefathers did, and have relaxed the stringency of the laws against vagabondage, the tramp is still an object of legitimate suspicion, and a watchful eye is kept by the Convict Supervision Office over all convicts at large, who are bound to [137]produce their licenses when called upon by a police officer to do so, and are only allowed to travel from district to district under certain restrictions.
The convict was duly conveyed to New South Wales; soon afterwards his wife arrived in the same colony, and having selected her husband as a servant, the two lived together in security and wealth on the proceeds of the robbery.
A description of the extortions, inhumanities, and crimes against the most elementary laws of sanitation, that were rife in prison-houses and convict establishments, would here be out of place.
Portsmouth prison was opened in 1852; Dartmoor (originally designed for the detention of French prisoners-of-war, but long disused) was converted into a convict establishment in 1855, and a new prison at Chatham was made ready in the year following.
Under present conditions a convict can only earn remission by good behaviour and constant industry, generally leaving the prison a better man than when he entered it, even if he is not entirely reformed; whilst under the old conditions, incarceration corrupted the novice in crime, and still further hardened the habitual offender.
"" On every ticket-of-leave issued, the following conditions were endorsed:-""Notice-(1)-The power of revoking or altering the license of a convict will most certainly be exercised in case of his misconduct.
Under the modern system the convict spends the first nine months of his penal servitude at Pentonville, or in some other local prison, and during this period is kept to solitary hard labour of an irksome and unproductive description; he is then moved to one or other of the ""Public Works Prisons,"" where his life at once becomes less monotonous.
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