Significados de penitentiary offense en inglés

To break a seal is a penitentiary offense.

It was a penitentiary offense to own one.

Dueling, according to the Illinois criminal statute of 1839, was a penitentiary offense, punishable by five years in prison.

That's a Federal penitentiary offense!

So would Palford & Grimby before it'd be stone-cold safe to rush things and accuse a man of a penitentiary offense.

As for you, you old money-hunting blunderbuss, the way you squirm in the presence of music ought to be a penitentiary offense.

There is no shady trick of commercial competition that they will not stoop to, nothing short of a penitentiary offense that they will balk at.

Penitentiary offense, I hear.

He tells me there were three indictments for penitentiary offenses pending against Crook when the Mayor promoted him to be Chairman of the Board.

"Impersonating an officer is a penitentiary offense."