Formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.
1There was no bill of indictment, no arraignment, no counsel.
2What is done with a bill of indictment when found?
3The accused himself was his own bill of indictment.
4A Southern grand jury threw out the bill of indictment against a slave-trading crew caught red-handed.
5The Grand Jury returned a bill of indictment against her to the Court of Assistants, sitting in Boston.
6What a terrible bill of indictment against us all these are; each one a count we cannot answer.
7The bill of indictment was read.
8All I could do was sit there and listen while this remorselessly efficient machine dictated the bill of indictment.
9In Paris alone there were three Military Commissions: each received a thousand bills of indictment.
10This was a Bill of Indictment preferred against Philip duke of Wharton, for high treason.
11Draws " bills of indictment" when found by the grand jury.
12Men's faults, failings, and foibles have been seized on and magnified into gruesome bills of indictment.
13Bills of indictment for high treason were found by the county of Surrey against the earls of Kilmarnock and Cromartie, and lord Balmerino.
14"Keep the bill of indictment," said Burgsdorf quietly.
15Leon Wright (18) was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 25 charges across five bills of indictment.
Translations for bill of indictment