Sentence examples for small offence from inspiring English sources

Twain remembers witnessing much random violence, including stabbings and shootings, a slave brained with a rock "for some small offence", and two brothers trying repeatedly to kill their uncle with a revolver that wouldn't go off.

For his first offence, he was released on bail: "No one told me that for any small offence I could get back in court and that, the second time, my penalty would be even more severe", says Maxim.

First, it is unfair to impose harsh penalties for small offences.

Prisoners are sentenced to corporal punishment for very small offences, such as uttering Communist slogans like "Rot Front" ("Red Front").

The brig was commanded by Mackenzie, noted for his cruelty to the men for small offences & trifling accidents, & for his hyprocisy in public worship aboard ship.

According to a report in the Virgin Islands Daily News, the Association's Bar Council objected to the possibility that children as young as 12 could be imprisoned for life, without release or appeal, for small offences such as being found with used ammunition.

The group found that children appearing before the Commission on Minors and the Courts for committing small offences were often sent to closed detention because there were no effective alternatives.

District courts were introduced in 1975 for minor offences and small claims.

Today's prosecution centred on a relatively small accounting offence admitted by BAE in relation to one contract in one country – a £28m radar deal in Tanzania in 2002.

A lot of people have been remanded in custody by magistrate courts for relatively minor offences such as receiving small quantities of stolen clothing.

However, data does not yet indicate the impact of the legislation on a country where 10% of the prison population is incarcerated for small drug offences.