Persons Found in Suspicious Circumstances
| DOI | 10.1177/002201834801200110 |
| Published date | 01 January 1948 |
| Date | 01 January 1948 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Persons found in Suspicious
Circumstances.
(Continued from
page
438 of VOL. 11)
II.
THE
PREVENTION
OF
CRIMES ACT
THE next
statute
to
be considered is
the
Prevention of
Crimes Act, 1871, s. 7. This provides
that
where a
person is convicted on indictment of a crime (as defined)
and
aprevious conviction of a crime is proved against him,
he shall,
at
any
time within seven years immediately after
the
expiration of
the
sentence passed on him for
the
last
of
such crimes
(i.e.
the
crime for which he is
that
day
sentenced),
be liable
to
one year's imprisonment
if
:
He is found in
any
place, whether public or private,
under such circumstances as
to
satisfy
the
court before
whom he is
brought
that
he was
about
to
commit or
to
aid in
the
commission ot
any
offence punishable on
indictment or summary conviction, or was waiting for
an opportunity to commit or aid in
the
commission
of any offence punishable on indictment or
summary
conviction:
or,
He
is found in or upon any dwelling house, or
any
building, yard, or premises, being parcel of or
attached
to
such dwelling-house, or in or upon any shop, ware-
house, counting-house, or
other
place of business, or in
any
garden, orchard, pleasure ground, or nursery
ground, or in
any
building or erection in
any
garden,
orchard, pleasure ground, or nursery ground, without
being able
to
account to
the
satisfaction of
the
court
befor~
whom he is brought for his being found on such
prenuses.
Expiration
of
the
sentence, in
the
case of imprisonment,
means
the
day
when he is released although he has earned
remission (Prison Act, 1898, s.8).
In
the
case of penal
servitude, it seems to mean from
the
date when
the
sentence
would have expired if he
had
not
been released on licence
(Penal Servitude Act, 1891, s. 6), and, when re-arrested
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