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Definition of Indictments
1. indictment [n] - See also: indictment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indictments
Literary usage of Indictments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Pleading negatives in indictments 2642 § 497c. Allegations as to time in ...
Surplusage in indictments 2651 § 498. Signature of indictments 2651 § 499. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"The two New York indictments against Price which he had been held to answer when
... These indictments allege the conspiracy to have been formed in the ..."
3. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson, United States Circuit Court (4th circuit), Aaron Burr (1808)
"The indictments ip those cases are, as I have already noticed, substantially
stated by Foster 213, 214; and the indictments themselves are to be found in 8 ..."
4. Handbook of Criminal Procedure by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1918)
"In most states, if separate indictments are pending against the same defendant
for offenses which could be joined in separate counts in the same indictment, ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"... 1.641 indictments Mill pending 1861 indictments pending at commencement of
year 2089 Crimes committed under influence of liquor 438 indictments found ..."
6. The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and Constitution by Virginia, John Mercer Patton, Conway Robinson (1849)
"PRESENTMENTS, indictments, *C. [TITLE ->5. to attend, ... What defects in
indictments not to vitiate ; before or after verdict. When accused discharged ..."
7. A Digest of the Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences by James Fitzjames Stephen, Herbert Stephen (1883)
"2 In indictments for treason all persons who are principal traitors may be joined,
... 1 For history of indictments, see 1 Hist. Cr. Law, 273-294. ..."
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