Dennis Mant

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Charge:	Vagrancy
Sentence:	2 years
Years Imprisoned:	0.84
Year Crime:	1883
Year Convicted:	1883
Year Cleared:	1884
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Massachusetts
County or Region of Crime:	Suffolk
City of Crime:	Boston
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Dennis Mant was wrongly convicted on November 2, 1883 of being a tramp in Boston, Massachusetts. Mant's prosecution was based on his arrest for asking for bread in Boston. After his conviction in the Foxbury District Municipal Court, Mant was sentenced to two years in prison. After Mant began serving his sentence an investigation by the Board of Directors for Public Institutions of the city of Boston determined that the day before Mant's arrest, the ship on which he was employed as a cook had docked in New York, and the captain left without paying Mant and his shipmates. At the time of his arrest Mant had not used any intoxicating liquor, and he listed South Carolina as his residence, where his mother and father lived. On September 9, 1884 Dennis Mant was granted a full pardon by Massachusetts Governor George D. Robinson based on the recommendation of the Board of Directors that Mant wasn't a tramp."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On September 9, 1884 Dennis Mant was granted a full pardon by Massachusetts Governor George D. Robinson based on the recommendation of the Board of Directors that Mant wasn't a tramp."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1885, Published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1885, p. 963."
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Dennis Mant

Charge:

Vagrancy

Sentence:

2 years

Years Imprisoned:

0.84

Year Crime:

1883

Year Convicted:

1883

Year Cleared:

1884

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Suffolk

City of Crime:

Boston

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On September 9, 1884 Dennis Mant was granted a full pardon by Massachusetts Governor George D. Robinson based on the recommendation of the Board of Directors that Mant wasn't a tramp."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1885, Published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1885, p. 963."

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