Show substitute FOR THE CRIMINAL vicarious pun ashment a common thing in the east the numbers of aged men among the prisoners in the jails of india id 14 said to be very large and the exola nation Is this it Is a common practice when I 1 theft Is brought home to a man by the police tor for him to get an old ta fa ther or uncle to take the blame on himself or he puts up a younger broth er to do so before the court they make full and circumstantial contes confes slon they are convicted and the real thieves get oft off it Is done to benefit the family A sturdy young man Is able to do more for the family support by honest labor or by ng than an old man or a boy this is a custom which prevails more or less in all oriental countries the judges and the deop e seem to argue in this way somebody has ommittee a crime therefore some body must be punished now the law is EO to respecter of persons and one rr r ra r sen Is the same as another therefore it can make no difference to the law who Is punished so if the law pun some person for the crime it makes make no difference it be he did not corn com mit the crime the law has been dindl caird |