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Example sentences for "indictments"

Lexicographically close words:
indicted; indicting; indiction; indictione; indictment; indicts; indicus; indiennes; indifference; indifferency
  1. His elation was caused by these words in the letter: "In re Miller and Thompson, we beg to report that there were no warrants or indictments handed down for these men in the Bromley case.

  2. Indictments were also found against two printing offices in Lawrence, and the principal hotel in the town.

  3. On the 2d of August the demurrers to the several indictments against the Terrys came up to be heard in the United States District Court.

  4. On the 7th the demurrer to one of the indictments against Sarah Althea was overruled and she entered a plea of not guilty.

  5. Dilatory motions were granted from time to time, and it was not until the 4th of June that demurrers to the indictments were filed.

  6. These indictments were filed on the 20th of September.

  7. Have an understanding with your friends and you can bring as many indictments as you please,--hundreds if you like!

  8. As offences under these acts were within the jurisdiction of the federal courts and as the federal officials manifested an inclination to carry out the law, the number of indictments was considerable.

  9. Public opinion was yet further shocked, however, when the trail of indictments led to the President's private secretary, General Babcock.

  10. Supposing indictments to be pending at the adoption of the Constitution, what is the rule in regard to their punishments?

  11. His organization was known as the "Regulators," and they were to help each other in the lawsuits and indictments growing out of a refusal to pay unlawful demands.

  12. Others, exhausted or unmanned by their sufferings, wished only to hide themselves and forget and be forgotten; others have indictments still hanging over them, to be pressed should they betray a disposition to loquacity.

  13. We will suppose, however, that our man has no second or third or other indictments hanging over him, and that he really does get clean away.

  14. The indictments to whose truth they bore witness--were they not made and brought by officers appointed by law to seek only impartial justice, and sworn to seek it without fear or favor?

  15. These are Uncle Sam's indictments of the Kaiser.

  16. These indictments of the Allies were more terrible to him than the war itself.

  17. He ran over the indictments and informed the writer that there was an indictment against him, for murder in the first degree.

  18. On Saturday the grand jury came into court and turned in their indictments and reported to the court that they had no more business.

  19. I remarked to him that I would rather have it tried before a jury of my country so that I could show the intention and aims of those who caused said indictments to be procured.

  20. He was the more ready to do so as he insisted that he acted simply as the representative of the Executive as Commander-in-Chief, and neither could nor would promise immunity from prosecutions under indictments or confiscation-laws.

  21. The officers and soldiers are not to be punished by the United States Government for their part in the war, but all are left liable to private prosecutions and indictments in the courts.

  22. One of the gravest indictments against the Eighteenth Amendment is that it has struck a deadly blow at the heart of our Federal system, the principle of local self-government.

  23. Their Indictments are probably still to be found at York Castle.

  24. All the old Indictments that are in existence, whether at York, Worcester, or other Assize towns, would be of interest and value re the Gunpowder Plot if the affair is to be thoroughly bottomed.

  25. And it is a great desideratum that the old York Castle Indictments should be catalogued, and a catalogue published.

  26. Bokkyng must remind my cousin Inglos about the indictments for treason of Heydon, 'that the man might be sent up to preve the said matter.

  27. All the indictments against Heydon are not worth a halfpenny.

  28. The old mode of exercising this power was by sending on to assizes indictments raising difficult questions which had been presented at quarter sessions.

  29. The High Court has ex officio power to transfer such indictments where the nature of the case and the demands of justice call for such transfer.

  30. You may not have known the name of the President of the Chamber of Indictments at the Court of Appeal in Paris; but you ought to have known that M.

  31. General Johnston had orders that would allow him to dispose of his forces without obedience to the governor, and the governor could not quash the indictments found by Judge Eckles's grand jury.

  32. In the October following, indictments were found against Colonel Williams of the Warsaw regiment, State Senator J.

  33. Indictments were found against both of them in Missouri, and a requisition for Smith's surrender was made by the governor of that state on the governor of Illinois.

  34. So soon as the indictments were found, a request was made by the marshal of the Governor of this state for a posse, or the assistance of the military force stationed in Hancock County, to enable him to arrest the alleged counterfeiters.

  35. No indictments were found that spring for this offence, but the Mormons stood in great dread of continued efforts by the judge to enforce the law as he interpreted it.

  36. The same grand jury on October 28 found indictments for murder against D.

  37. The conviction of himself and his associates on the indictments for treason could be prevented before an unbiased non-Mormon jury only by flight.

  38. At the May, 1844, term of the Hancock Circuit Court two indictments were found against Smith by the grand jury--one for adultery and one for perjury.

  39. This book by one of the foremost socialists of Europe is a notable work of art considered merely as a story and at the same time it is one of the most stirring indictments of the capitalist system ever written.

  40. The scene of his first great activity was in Vienna, where he was soon met with many indictments and persecutions from the authorities, who mercilessly pursued him for the rest of his life.

  41. On being brought before the judges, however, he begged to be allowed to withdraw the former plea, and then pleaded guilty to two of the indictments which were not of a capital nature.

  42. There were five indictments against the prisoner, to all of which he pleaded not guilty, when he was arraigned before Mr. Serjeant Arabin in the course of the morning.

  43. Indictments have been simplified, and an indictment for the most serious of crimes is now the simplest of all.

  44. As previously mentioned, he had showered four indictments upon the defendant within the brief space of two days.

  45. Upon the strength of these indictments Collins was forthwith arrested, and compelled to appear and give the required bail.

  46. The Attorney-General probably repented that he had not proceeded on at least one of the indictments during the late Assizes, and resolved that another opportunity should not pass unimproved.

  47. He denied that he had neglected his duty in not preferring indictments against persons in cases where no formal complaint had been laid, and he utterly repudiated the idea that his office imposed upon him the role of a thief-catcher.

  48. With respect to the indictments against Collins, the Judge's appeal to the Attorney-General was not altogether without efficacy, notwithstanding the ill blood between them.

  49. He added, however, that there were further indictments against Collins which had emanated from the Grand Jury, and that he could not with proper deference to them at once relinquish proceedings therein.

  50. The most feasible method of disposing of the noisy little firebrand presented itself in the shape of successive indictments for libel, to which his aggressive and unguarded mode of writing would be certain to expose him.

  51. But it was not so; and the sleepy old Judge, suddenly waking up, told me that there were two Indictments against me, and that I should have the honour of being tried separately.

  52. A bullet through his brain set him clean quit of all indictments under the Black Act, before our Sovereign Lord the King.

  53. The 1,100 indictments of Lord Cork soon swelled their ranks, and the capture of the ancient city of Cashel by Philip O'Dwyer announced the insurrection of the South.

  54. In Leinster, 4,000 similar indictments were found in the course of two days by the free use of the rack with witnesses.

  55. Two indictments were framed against him: one for being a priest and a jesuit, and the other for disparaging Protestantism; on these he was found guilty of high treason, and ordered to die according to the law.

  56. This act put a temporary end to his outside public addresses, but he could still deliver his scathing indictments in the Reichstag and in the Prussian Assembly.


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