An offender is always liable to punishment whatever time may have elapsed since the committal of the offence.
While the committal was being made out, Mr. Thurwell leaned over and whispered to him.
Since Ralph's committal their old friends had fought shy of them.
The Darminster City bench sits to-day, and they want that unlucky child over there to make her deposition for his committal.'
The officer received the committal, and in half an hour our hero was locked up with felons of every description.