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not guilty
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not guilty by reason of insanity
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Not guilty
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Not guilty by Statute
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Inguilty
Not guilty
Nient culpable
Nient culpable (not guilty), a plea in criminal prosecutions; see 4 Bl. Com. 339.
verdict
in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment compromise verdict : a verdict produced not by sincere unanimous agreement on guilt or liability but … trial to be guilty 2 a : a verdict that finds a defendant guilty on some counts and not guilty on others b : a verdict in which a jury is unable to reach or has not yet
False pretence, obtaining property
may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security; shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof liable to penal servitude for any term not exceeding five years.
Culprit
Culprit. The prisoner at the Bar awaiting his trial after a plea of not guilty. 'Its first recorded use is in the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for murder in 1678. Its … Pembroke for murder in 1678. Its original force was formerly to join issue with the defendant's plea of Not guilty and to demand trial and judgment.'-Oxf. Dict., art. 'Culprit,' where see discussion of the disputed derivations of the
arraign
(a defendant) before a judge or magistrate to hear the charges and to plead usually either guilty or not guilty compare indict NOTE: For a person to be formally arraigned, he or she must be called by name … read to formally notify the defendant of the charges. The defendant may then enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or another plea allowed by law such as nolo contendere. In some cases, as when the defendant is
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