convict
kon vikt
- n a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- n a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense
- v find or declare guilty
The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced
- HEARTS IN CHAINS: A photo of convict Emma Mayner and her children with a letter to her grandson and a hand-sewn "forget-me-not".
- She is a keening Irishwoman in Foggy Dew, a chain-gang convict in Take This Hammer, a deserted lover in Lass from the Low Country.
- After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake.