When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ), one of his victims was not around to testify: He was dead of cancer.

" When an elderly defendant told him that he would not be able to live to complete a five-year sentence, Landis scowled at him and asked, " Well, you can try, can't you?

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged " not guilty by reason of insanity " or " guilty but insane " and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary ( but usually indeterminate ) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court ( depending on the country and the offence charged ) instead of a punitive disposal.

When such an agreement is proposed, the court can reject it if it disagrees with the proposed sentence, in which case the defendant has an opportunity to withdraw his plea.

Examples in which the punned words typically exist in two different parts of speech often rely on unusual sentence construction, as in the anecdote: " When asked to explain his large number of children, the pig answered simply: ' The wild oats of my sow gave us many piglets.

When asked whether he was guilty or not guilty and willing to take the blood of the late King Charles I on his head, Harrison "... not only pleaded not guilty, but justified the sentence passed upon the King ( Charles I ), and the authority of those who had commissioned him to act as one of his judges.

When translating a sentence, an exact match means the same sentence has been translated before.

; Sententia quae in rem iudicatam transit, pro veritate habetur: When a definitive sentence is declared, it is considered to be the truth.

When dealing with words-as-words, short-form works and sentence fragments, this style places periods and commas outside the quotation marks:

When dealing with words-as-words, short-form works and sentence fragments, this style places periods and commas inside the quotation marks:

When a quotation is followed by other writing on a line of text, a space follows the closing quotation mark unless it is immediately followed by other punctuation within the sentence, such as a colon or closing punctuation.

* When Probe 17 overflew the South Pole, it passed directly over the place where Captain Scott's expedition ended. this sentence, South Pole is a proper name referring to Earth's south pole

When the poem is completed, the echo of the last phrase, line, or sentence, generally serves as the title.

When the Commons demand judgment, but not earlier, the Lords may proceed to pronounce the sentence against the accused.

When three of her four captors were apprehended and given maximum sentences ( including one death sentence ), McElroy defended them.

When the style is used within a sentence, the begins with a lower-case letter.

When the attempt was made to carry out the sentence on the third " accomplice "-Tobias's son-the rope broke and he was imprisoned, having first confessed to the killings.

When the 2003 version of the FMA failed to advance in the Congress, Senator Allard re-introduced the Amendment on May 22, 2004 with a revised second sentence.

When a reader can reasonably interpret the same sentence as having more than one possible structure, the text is equivocal and meets the definition of syntactic ambiguity.

When the case is tried, the jury decide that he is guilty of manslaughter ( which carries a lighter sentence ) rather than premeditated murder.

When words have a grammatical gender associated with them, in many languages, there is an absolute requirement for morphological changes to maintain sentence agreement.

When the literacy test was abolished in 1706, the lesser sentence given to those who pleaded benefit of clergy was increased to up to 6 – 24 months ' hard labour.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.