jail delivery

The wholesale jail delivery did not occur until well along into 1915.

Marteau comes in with news that a jail delivery will take place tomorrow.

For the most of us there is no jail delivery of those inner depths, and the life above goes on to its honourable end.

Late summer, 1915 - Wholesale jail delivery takes place, in which 51 of the 52 imprisoned Congressmen and 300 other leaders were released by the revolutionaries.

The third colonial court, which regularly assembled at Salisbury, was the court of oyer, terminer and general jail delivery.

Under the old regime, this important power was vested in a single official, and he usually took care to have a general jail delivery in time for the next election.

A traffic arrest there, followed by a street shooting and then a wholesale jail delivery of black prisoners, upset the schedule: the revolt was quickly out of control.

There was small chance it could be stopped, but if something were to happen to Orrin and me, if there was to be a jail delivery ... He wouldn't dare.

Some of them were honest, I'd heard Right about then I had an idea that I didn't like even a little: Suppose there was a jail delivery by Sam Barlow?

Friction developed in 1600, when he snubbed Ralph Eure, 3rd Lord Eure, vice-president, who was sitting with Sir John Savile as justice of jail delivery.

The commission of oyer and terminer, was a general commission to hear and decide cases, while the commission of jail delivery required the justices to try all prisoners held in the jails.

"Paisano and Dwyer are just outside the town," I said, "and no two men are going to manage a jail delivery, but Pritts was paying them ... what for?"

And on the other hand an unexpected spate of gold production, the discovery of a single nugget as big as St. Paul's, let us say--a quite possible thing--would result in a sort of jail delivery of debtors and a financial earthquake.

Local reports indicated that citizens were concerned the ancient jail would be inadequate to hold experienced criminals Sheriff Lindley kept Pierpont and Skeer under heavy guard and denied visitors to the cellhouse for fear of a jail delivery.

Though a wellpreserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity.