In criminal law. The with* drawing of a sentence of death for an in-terval of time, whereby the execution is sus-pended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 97 Ind. 374; Sterling v. Drake, 29 Ohio SL 460, 23 Am. Rep. 762; In re Buch-anan, 146 N. Y. 264, 40 N. E. 883
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
