A convict appointed as an officer of the peace in an Australian colony.
a convict constable entered the house with a warrant of execution
Example sentencesExamples
- A convict constable conducted them to the houses of their master.
- A convict constable was charged with illegally using a boat to abduct a young Aboriginal female.
- A stranger cannot enter the town without being asked by the convict constable on duty his name and what is his business.
- He worked variously as an explorer, writer, farmer, and convict constable.
- They travelled a distance of 60 miles in the charge of a convict constable.
- He gave sanctuary to a convict constable who had been punished by his fellow magistrates on a doubtful charge.
- it is left entirely to the discretion of a convict constable to inflict the punishment.
- He walks for thirty miles through the rain and mud, under the convoy of a convict constable.
- The man was correctly identified by Ned as a former convict constable.
- No man habited as a magistrate would be touched by a convict constable.