- 2) five years—when a person is sentenced to deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed five years;
- 3) ten years—when a person is sentenced to a more severe punishment than deprivation of freedom for a period of five years.
The period of limitation is broken if the convicted person avoids serving the sentence or commits, prior to the expiration of the period, another crime for which the court has assigned punishment in the form of deprivation of freedom for a period not less then one year, or exlle or banishment for a period of not less then thee years. In the event of the commission of another crime the period of limitation is counted from the time of its commission. In the event of avoiding the serving of a sentence it is counted from the time the person surrenders himself in order to serve sentence, or from the time of arrest of a convicted person who has concealed himself. In this case an inculpatory sentence shell not be put into execution if five years have elapsed since the time of its pronouncement, and if the period of limitation was not broken by the commission of another crime.
The question of applying the period of limitation to a person who has been Sentenced to death is decided by the court. If the court does not consider it feasible to apply the period of limitation, the death penalty shall be replaced by deprivation of freedom.
Article 50. Exemption from criminal liability and punishment.
A person who has committed a crime may be exempted from criminal liability it is acknowledged that, by the time of the investigation or the trial, as a result of a change in the situation, the act committed by the guilty party has lost its character of being socially dangerous, or that the person has ceased to be socially dangerous.
A person who has committed a crime may be exempted from punishment if it is acknowledged that by reasons of his subsequent irreproachable behavior and honorable altitude toward labor, the person may not, by the time of the trial, be considered socially dangerous.
Article 51. Exemption from criminal liability and the transfer of the case to a comrades’ court.
A person may be exempted from criminal liability and punishment, and the case transferred for hearing by a comrades' court, if he commits any of the following acts, specified by the Special Part of the present Code, as a first offence:
- 1) the premeditated infliction of slight bodily injury, or
