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s the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. -- Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached to the Navy Depart…

The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.

acter, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.

One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.

ted. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Not proven (Scots Law), a verdict of a jury that the guilt of the accused is not made out, though not disproved. Mozley & W.

The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest ne…

The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.

A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

ence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person. There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it. Swift.

; watch; inspection; supervision. That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott.

y, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

To utter in a treble key; to whine. [Obs.] He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply. Chapman.

r; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.