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How to use convict in a sentence

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He was a staunch opponent of both emancipist rights and convict privileges.
A jury isn't going to convict on that kind of legal hair-splitting, and I think the prosecutor realized that.
The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations.
A better film would have been the battle between the rogue FBI agent and convict vs. the enigmatic Brother Payne.
The jury took two hours to convict him of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He stayed there for a moment and took it all in, feeling like a convict making an escape in one of those prison movies.
But in practice, the issue isn't so cut and dried, because while lawyers have a duty to the court, it's not their job to convict their client.
They need at least one of them, in my opinion, to convict in a capital murder case.
The same jury took less than four hours on Tuesday to convict her of capital murder, rejecting her insanity defence.
A convict has escaped, unwittingly aided by young Julian's artless chatter, and John must be on hand to deal with the situation.
These powers include the ability to convict suspects by innuendo, hearsay and rumour.
Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft.
Thus, if the jury acquit the accused of the more serious indictable offence, they may still convict of the summary offence.
Alex Lichtenstein sees an essential continuity between the convict lease system and the chain gang in Georgia.
Of greater significance was the parole system, introduced in 1908, the same year as convict leasing was abolished and the chain gang introduced.
Examples include the oscar, Jack Dempsey, jewelfish, convict cichlid, Midas cichlid, and spotted tilapia.
His intention was to get you lot to try, convict and hang me just on his say-so.
Australia was a penal settlement at the time, and a team of convict labourers were set about the task.
By the 1960s SHD enthusiasm for using convict road gangs was apparently in decline as the system dwindled away to a remnant.
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The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse.
He describes the scene as if the choice had rested with the magistrates to convict him or to let him go.
To expect to convict him after all these years was ridiculous, and it was not likely that he would confess.
When in Ekaterinburg the convict had asked Nekhludoff to get a permission for his wife to follow him.
One would have nothing more difficult to do than empanel a jury, convict and swing off the Tomcat.
There he showed it to his father, who was an employe in the convict prison there.
The jurors would not convict him, so were gaoled and fined by the justices.
I will give one hundred dollars for proof sufficient to convict his harborers.
It was this kind of thing that turned the Holy Land into a sort of convict settlement.
Out of their own mouths these men convict themselves of inconsistency in their locutions and illogicality in their reasonings.
One was instigated by a perjurer and a heretic, the other by an indentured servant, in all probability from a convict ship.
Yet every attempt of his enemies to convict him of extortion or malversation broke signally down.
From convict mouths went out a respectful roar of amazement, and Mr. troke's eyes snapped with pride of outraged janitorship.
Monseigneur de Belzunce sat upon the seat of the tumbrel laden with corpses, driven by a convict stained with every crime.
By forbidding the interstate transportation of the products of child labor, of convict labor and of all uninspected factories.
Time him as often as you will, you can never convict him of a second's variation.
Every convict who helped to catch a fugitive was entitled to a remission of six days.
One can scarcely believe that his father was a convict and his mother a washerwoman.
If they could convict Lesurques upon such evidence, why not also convict Guesno on it?
A convict in the Andaman Islands tried the same game, but he could not escape my system!
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