 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 sider
...homicide t Who is to prove that a given case of homicide is not malicious ? INDICTMENT— GRAND JURY. AN indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime ormisdemesnor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. To this end the sheriff of every... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 738 sider
...for his appearance, the next step is the prosecution, which is usually carried on by indictment. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred by the prosecutor to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. It must contain the particulars of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 sider
...for his appearance, the next step is the prosecution, which is usually carried on by indictment. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred by the prosecutor to, and presented upon oath bv, a grand jury. It must contain the particulars of... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 sider
...arraigned, or put upon his trial upon this inquisition, which brings it to a kind of indictment2 An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanour, preferred to and presented on oath by a grand jury, who must, by tie common law, be freeholders,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 914 sider
...motions of the heavenly bodies. INDl'CTMENT, in law, a written accusation of one or more persons for a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented on oath by a grand jury. In determining whether there is a reasonable cause to put the accused upon his trial, the grand jury... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 sider
...thirty-first year, was the first year of the third indiction, &c. INDICTMENT, crim. law, practicf, is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, presented to, and preferred upon oath or affirmation, by a grand jury legally convoked. 4 Bl. Com.... | |
 | 1844 - 546 sider
...accusation not of record. (Co. Litt. 126, 4.) In Blackst. Com. book 33, sec. 2, it is denned to be " a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanour preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury." In that sense I admit the caption... | |
 | John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - 1844 - 1008 sider
...a more extended and enlarged meaning. In its original meaning, it is not a record, and is defined, "a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor preferred to or presented on oath by a Grand Jury," 4 Bl. Com. 301, " an accusation found by an inquest of twelve... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1844 - 1016 sider
...more extended and enlarged meaning. In its original meaning, it is not a record, and is defined, " a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor preferred to or presented on oath by a Grand Jury," 4 Bl. Com. 301, "an accusation found by an inquest of twelve... | |
 | 1844 - 834 sider
...beyond the simple rights enjoyed by the meanest of its subjects — and preferred an indictment: which is " a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanour, preferred to and presented on oath by a grand jury." J КОЛУ, in framing an indictment,... | |
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An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. 
