He was committed for trial on the 13th, and at the ensuing Assizes, on August 4th, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen to seven years' penal servitude.
The prisoners, with the exception of Furness, pleaded guilty.
As to the plea of guilty, he remarked that nowadays too many persons pleaded guilty, deluded with the hope that it would be taken into consideration and they would escape the severer penalty.
At his trial he pleaded guilty; but he was respited, and afterwards pardoned.
He had specified the Chevalier St. George in his prayers, and he now repeated his repentance for having pleaded guilty at his trial.
On the evening of the tenth day the six remaining prisoners, at the suggestion of their counsel, pleaded Guilty, having been permitted to withdraw their former plea, by which they eventually escaped capital punishment.
He repeatedly admitted that he had "done it," and expressed some anxiety to know whether, if he pleaded guilty, he should escape transportation.
All the Peers who were charged, except the Earl of Winton, pleaded guilty to the indictment, but offered pleas of extenuation for their guilt, in hopes of obtaining mercy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleaded guilty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
