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bill of indictment

bill of indictment see bill

indict [alteration of earlier indite, from Anglo-French enditer, from Old French,

One who indicts

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a device or instrument used in criminal procedure bill of indictment : an instrument that contains the charges against a defendant

acquitted), a plea in criminal cases; when a person is indicted for an offence and acquitted, he cannot be afterwards indicted

a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but

such case made and provided]. The usual conclusion of every indictment, etc., brought for an offence created by statute prior to

we can only define a misdemeanour by saying that every indictable offence which is neither treason nor felony is a misdemeanour'

established in the criminal law, that when a man is indicted for an offence, and acquitted, he cannot afterwards be indicted

main jurisdictions are (1) to try, with a jury, for indictable offences not excepted by the Act of 1842 as below,

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