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HABITUAL CRIMINAL Definition & Legal Meaning

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By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony,having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice so convicted), or who isconvicted of a misdemeanor aud has previously (in New York) been five times convictedof a misdemeanor. Crim. Code N. Y. 1903,

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