Sentence examples for small offences from inspiring English sources

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.

"They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times," he said.

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.

They said that "by giving a large platform to a small offence", the story had "tainted the reputation of this accomplished editor, poet and memoirist".

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.

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

It's a tribute to Tippett, or more so to Britten, who was merciless in dropping friends for the smallest offence, that the two remained on good terms.