Convicted

A Statute relative to the disqualification of those "convicted" of certain crimes, refers to the judgment of the court in a criminal case on the verdict of guilty, and not merely to the verdict.

51 111. 314.

CONVICTION (Lat. eonvictio; from con, with, and vincere, to bind).

In practice

That legal proceeding of record which ascertains the guilt of the party, and upon which the sentence or judgment is founded.

7 Man. & G. 504.

Finding a person guilty by verdict of a jury.

1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 223.

A record of the summary proceedings upon any penal statute before one or more justices of the peace or other persons duly authorized, in a case where the offender has been convicted and sentenced.

Holthouse.

The first of the definitions here given undoubtedly represents the accurate meaning of the term, and includes an ascertainment of the guilt of the party by an authorized magistrate in a summary way, or by confession of the party himself, as well as by verdict of a jury. The word is also used in each of the other senses given. It is said to be sometimes used to denote final judgment.

Dwarr. St. (2d Ed.) 683.

And a final judgment is usually held essential to conviction.

69 N. Y. 107; 99.Mass. 420.

Summary conviction is one which takes place before an authorized magistrate or inferior court, without the intervention of a