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<p>cancelled by a day's Imprisonment: insomuch that the<lb/>offender may at any time buy off any part of the Imprisonment<lb/>as for as he has wherewithal.</p> | |||
<p><note>Case in which<lb/>Fine may be Converted<lb/>to Imprisonment.</note>Although a pecuniary punishment only should<lb/>be appointed by the Law there is one case in which the<lb/>Judge may convert it, or a part of it into Imprisonment:<lb/>to wit where there appears reason to believe that<lb/>the Defendant is supported by a person or set of<lb/>persons who were associates in, or at least are approvers<lb/>of, the Offence; which person or persons will discharge<lb/>or contribute to discharge the fine.</p> | |||
<p>For it may happen that there shall be good<lb/>ground for suspecting such a confederacy, although these<lb/>should not be proof sufficient to convict any person<lb/>as a confederate: for instance in all party offences.</p> | |||
<p><note>Offender never to<lb/>profit by his offence</note>At all events let it be the case of the Judge that an <add>offender</add></p> | |||
Of Punishments In General
cancelled by a day's Imprisonment: insomuch that the
offender may at any time buy off any part of the Imprisonment
as for as he has wherewithal.
Case in which
Fine may be Converted
to Imprisonment.Although a pecuniary punishment only should
be appointed by the Law there is one case in which the
Judge may convert it, or a part of it into Imprisonment:
to wit where there appears reason to believe that
the Defendant is supported by a person or set of
persons who were associates in, or at least are approvers
of, the Offence; which person or persons will discharge
or contribute to discharge the fine.
For it may happen that there shall be good
ground for suspecting such a confederacy, although these
should not be proof sufficient to convict any person
as a confederate: for instance in all party offences.
Offender never to
profit by his offenceAt all events let it be the case of the Judge that an offender
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