criminal charge

criminal charge
An affidavit, complaint, indictment, or information which accuses the defendant or accused with the commission of a specified crime or offense and states the crime or offense in sufficient particulars to advise the defendant or accused of the acts or omissions for whichh he is being brought into court; a count in an indictment or information charging two or more crimes or offense. The popular understanding of the term "criminal charge" is "accusation," and it is freely so used in conversation and in the newspapers, but in legal phraseology it is properly limited to such accusations as have taken shape in a prosecution. In the eye of the law, a person is charged with crime only when he is called upon in a legal proceeding to answer to such a charge. United States v Patterson, 150 US 65, 68, 37 L Ed 999, 1000, 14 S Ct 20.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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