| The legal provisions on crimes relating to absconding during Qin and early Han dynasties were complicated and systematic. With respect to the application of criminal punishment, the punishment for simple absconding crimes was different for absconders of different status. The punishment for absconding after committing a crime is comprised of both punishment for the principal crime and the punishment for absconding. With respect to procedures, simple absconding crimes committed by officials or ordinary persons were generally not followed by a trial and a manhunt procedure; absconding crimes committed by convicts or persons with special status were followed by two different trial and manhunt procedures in light of the severity of the crimes, namely "sentencing and certifying it" and "sentencing and ordering criminals to surrender themselves and accept punishments". As to absconding after committing crimes, either one of the aforesaid two procedures could be applied in light of the punishment for the principal crime. In the procedure of "sentencing and ordering the criminals to surrender themselves and accept punishments", if criminals failed to come forward to accept the punishments, their punishments should be determined by assuming that they absconded after receiving the original punishments. Surrendering at different stages of judicial procedure in different kinds of absconding cases could lead to different reduction of punishment, including caning, reducing the punishment of the crime by one degree, and reducing by one degree the final punishment comprising of both the punishment for the principal crime and the punishment for absconding. |
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