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  • The superstitious 35-year-old singer and impressionist was remanded on bail in his absence charged with affray.
  • But he was shocked to find himself charged with affray - along with Force. The Sun
  • A woman was charged with affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • He got 18 months suspended at Leicester crown court after admitting affray and criminal damage. The Sun
  • The reason for the affray is unclear, though a police spokesman played down any suggestion of feuding between criminal gangs.
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  • Two others also admitted affray charges. The Sun
  • CDs are regularly used for theft, drugs offences, affray, abusive and threatening behavior and - where for example the police have helpfully stoved your head in - to reflect the fact that you've probably served enough penance. What Happened Next to the "Tony Martin" Defence?
  • His criminal record also includes armed robbery, affray, assault, theft and public order offences.
  • At the age of 17, he was jailed for a year for affray after being involved in a riot.
  • King Alexander II., by charter, dated at Cluny, the 13th day of August, in the eleventh year of his reign (1227), granted to the Canons of the Abbey of Inchaffray the teind of his duties of Auchterarder to be drawn yearly by the hands of his tacksmen and bailies of Auchterarder. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • That joint enterprise could either rest on an agreement or common purpose to commit the affray or simple aiding and abetting of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
  • That joint enterprise could either rest on an agreement or common purpose to commit the affray or simple aiding and abetting of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were instead charged with affray and causing actual bodily harm, but were acquitted. Times, Sunday Times
  • The marines all deny murder and affray. The Sun
  • From the objective aspect, the defiance and affray crime is similar to crimes like robbery, extortion, intentional injury that it can be easily confused in enforcement practice of law.
  • That joint enterprise could either rest on an agreement or common purpose to commit the affray or simple aiding and abetting of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The plaintiff was the widow of a man killed in a criminal affray.
  • Today the teacher was sentenced to a total six months in jail for possessing the firearm and one month in jail for affray.
  • Both admitted affray - and were jailed for nine months. The Sun
  • Admitting affray and criminal damage, he was jailed for 14 months.
  • He got 18 months suspended at Leicester crown court after admitting affray and criminal damage. The Sun
  • He and eight other men were sentenced after admitting affray. The Sun
  • Two other men deny affray. The Sun
  • I have looked into the faces of many angry men, and yet have not been affrayed above measure. ' John Knox
  • Two others also admitted affray charges. The Sun
  • He was charged with affray and common assault rather than violent disorder and was jailed for six months.
  • He denies one charge of affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was then clear that it was not another form of ‘afeared’, but wholly separate from it, the participle of the verb ‘to affray’, ‘affrayer’, or, as it is now written, ‘effrayer’ {247}. English Past and Present
  • Both admitted affray - and were jailed for nine months. The Sun
  • The detail of the affray was briefly given by the bystanders, and seemed deeply to touch the spirit of the examinator. Peveril of the Peak
  • He denies one charge of affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • Smith was acquitted of an affray charge and told to pay her fine at £10 a week.
  • At a hearing earlier this month, the accused pleaded guilty to causing an affray during a fight in a pub in April.
  • He is also charged with affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • The public order essence of the offence has been wholly lost, and affray has become a form of aggravated assault.
  • From court records I can confirm that B pleaded guilty to the offence of affray.
  • He expressed a strong objection to having manual labour imposed upon him as well as his other work: but they maintained that if only he had called the affray "a struggle for daily bread" or "a fight for a livelihood," he would quite have enjoyed it; and they further suggested that such diversion must be much more interesting than being a mere commonplace tutor who only taught lessons. The Heavenly Twins
  • The church itself was impropriated to the Abbey of Inchaffray, founded by the Earl of Strathearn about the beginning of the twelfth century, and was served by a vicar, to whom that monastery delegated the clerical duty, doubtless on the usual pittance of stipend. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • A Braintree man was cleared of an affray charge yesterday when the prosecution offered no further evidence against him.
  • Both earlier admitted affray over the December 27 attack. The Sun
  • He admitted affray, criminal damage and dangerous driving. The Sun
  • He's a tearaway, a lout, a hooligan, and he's got a previous conviction for affray.
  • He admitted a charge of affray when he appeared in court for sentence and was given a 100-hour punishment order.
  • Three other men were also given custodial sentences yesterday after admitting affray at the same game.
  • Actual breaches of the peace include riotous and unlawful assemblies, riots, affrays, forcible entry and detainer, etc.
  • A bloody affray, which is obscurely related, had occurred in St. Louis between the Secessionists and Federalists. The Civil War in America
  • He admitted affray, criminal damage and dangerous driving. The Sun
  • Both earlier admitted affray over the December 27 attack. The Sun
  • The war which began four years ago in Abyssinia and Spain has developed into a world affray, but still the world does not quite know who is fighting whom or why. War With the Blinds Down
  • The pepil richt affrayitly, returnit to him out of all partis of the wod, to comfort him efter his trubill; and fell on kneis, devotly adoring the haly croce; for it was not cumin but sum hevinly providence, as weill apperis; for thair is na man can schaw of quhat mater it is of, metal or tre. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • But he was shocked to find himself charged with affray - along with Force. The Sun
  • New Orleans Times-Picayune, the involuntary manslaughter charge was dropped after Grant pleaded no contests to misdemeanor "affray" - fighting two or more persons in a public place. Chicagotribune.com - News
  • Oh noes, ai juss merembered teh penguin in the bloos bruvverz adn iz bery bery affrayed! DEVINE ORDER OF CATZ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • A charge of affray, therefore, could have been put. Times, Sunday Times
  • That joint enterprise could either rest on an agreement or common purpose to commit the affray or simple aiding and abetting of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • When these unhappy men began thus to stir, they of London, except such as were of their band, were greatly affrayed. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • A woman was charged with affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • The superstitious 35-year-old singer and impressionist was remanded on bail in his absence charged with affray.
  • Big, tough, fully matured yobs with a multiplicity of tattoos and convictions for affray and GBH get misty-eyed when reflecting on their unmuzzled pit-bull Vinny and their lethal Alsatian Prince.
  • Two other men deny affray. The Sun
  • On hearing from the alcaide the cause of the affray, he acted with becoming dignity, ordering the guards from the room and directing that the renegade should be severely punished for daring to infringe the hospitality of the palace and insult an embassador. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
  • They were instead charged with affray and causing actual bodily harm, but were acquitted. Times, Sunday Times
  • The section puts it beyond argument that there is no defence that the affray took place in private.
  • Despite being arrested on charges from affray to possessing a knife, he has yet to see the inside of a prison. The Sun
  • Two charges of affray relating to incidents in February when he had been thrown out of clubs and returned for revenge saw him sentenced to 18 months to run consecutively, giving him a total ten years.
  • Comanchero leader Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi was charged Monday with fighting in public in a way that caused bystanders to fear for their safety - a crime called affray - at the airport. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • She was found guilty of affray and of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear and violence.
  • The marines all deny murder and affray. The Sun
  • That joint enterprise could either rest on an agreement or common purpose to commit the affray or simple aiding and abetting of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite being arrested on charges from affray to possessing a knife, he has yet to see the inside of a prison. The Sun
  • Another man had admitted affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is also charged with affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our adventurer, who had not been seen by any of the witnesses during the affray, and who had been found unarmed after it was over, was next examined before a magistrate, and his examination ended in his committal to take his trial at the same time and place with Andrew McCoy, for bushranging and robbery, both of which at that time were equally capital offences with the most cold-blooded brutal murder. Ralph Rashleigh
  • The gentlemen of the countries, knights and squires, began to doubt, when they saw the people began to rebel; and though they were in doubt, it was good reason; for a less occasion they might have been affrayed. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Another man had admitted affray. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ladye shee was new-fangle, but yett shee was affrayd. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
  • A charge of affray, therefore, could have been put. Times, Sunday Times
  • I once narrowly escaped such an affray — but I humbled myself, and apologised to Redcowl; for, even in my younger days, I was no friend to the monomachia, or duel, and would rather walk with Sir Priest than with Sir Knight — I care not who knows so much of my valour. The Antiquary
  • If a major crisis occurred the United States might find itself sorely embarrassed and perhaps ultimately drawn into the affray.
  • Think you could end up in a world of hurt mate specially because you have already admitted and taken the fine for affray, which is a lot worse than just fighting. Army Rumour Service
  • The charges against the Commanchero members are for "affray" - fighting in public and causing bystanders to fear for their safety. TheState.com: The Buzz
  • He was sorry about the outcome of an affray that he had not started and in no way wanted.
  • He and eight other men were sentenced after admitting affray. The Sun
  • As already stated, King Alexander II. granted the teind of his duties of Auchterarder, and, by a subsequent charter, amongst other grants he confirmed the grant of these churches to Inchaffray. Chronicles of Strathearn
  • Quene and hir factioun nocht a litill affrayed, with all diligence departed from Edinburgh to Dumbar. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
  • C other other purpofe •, for he cannot juftify the committing an affrayer to gaol till he fhall be punifhed for his offence: and it is faid, that he ought not to. lay hands on thofe, who barely contend with hot words, without any threats of perfonal hurt, and that all which he can do in fuch cafe, is to command them under pain of imprisonment to avoid fighting, i Hawk. The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by
  • He and Jaffray lived through turbulent times, particularly during the Civil War, when they survived the town's two sackings by Cromwellian forces.
  • So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; nor did the swords cease on the napes of men to make play nor the strife to rage with more and more affray, till the most part of the night was past away and the two hosts were aweary of the mellay. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And ... a few days back, a clutch of seethe-heads affrayed a marine patrol on the Wildfoss, remember? The Day Of Their Return
  • They all plead not guilty and also deny affray following a confrontation outside a nightclub before the attack.
  •     With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine. Poems and Fragments

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