Can you convict on hearsay?

Hearsay is a legal term. In the courtroom, witnesses from both sides are examined and cross-examined by both the prosecution (or plaintiff in civil cases) and the defense (or defendant). When a...

The convicts were the criminals sent to Australia from England in the 1700s and early 1800s. British prisons were overflowing, and so the decision was made to establish a convict settlement in...

They stole food from anywere so they could eat and so they can sell and get money so they can live.

convicted criminal (a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense)

The convicts literally built the colony. They constructed the buildings, roads and bridges and quarried the stone for building as well as cutting down the trees. They established the first farms and...