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Definition of Prosecuting officer
1. Noun. A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Specialized synonyms: Da, District Attorney, State Attorney, State's Attorney
Generic synonyms: Attorney, Lawyer, Functionary, Official
Derivative terms: Prosecute, Prosecute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosecuting Officer
Literary usage of Prosecuting officer
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)
"The prosecuting officer in the Federal courts is the District Attorney of the
United States for the district where the case is tried.1 In any action which ..."
2. Criminal Procedure, Or, Commentaries on the Law of Pleading and Evidence and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1880)
"No indorsement of the indictment by the prosecuting officer is necessary at ...
In some of our States, the signature of the prosecuting officer is made by ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: Or, Pleading, Evidence, and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1872)
"THE prosecuting officer, AND OTHER COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION. § 278. How, in
General. — Everywhere in the United States criminal prosecutions before the ..."
4. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"He is counsel to the various departments; he is prosecuting officer of the State
at large; and in many cases, where the District Attorney is barred from ..."
5. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"... as prosecuting officer, he wa-< energetic, eloquent, discreet, and efficient,
and as a magistrate charged with onerous, important, und exacting duties, ..."
6. Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 1652-16[60] by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1920)
"... forty-eight hours, and so on in succession, whereof one-third is to go to the
poor, one-third to this court and one-third to the prosecuting officer. ..."
7. A Treatise on Federal Criminal Law Procedure by William Hawley Atwell (1916)
"Comments or Improper Argument of District Attorney. 22a. Procedure When Improper
Argument or Remarks are Made. 23. prosecuting officer in Grand Jury Room; ..."
8. Treatise on the Law Governing Nuisances: With Particular Reference to Its by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1906)
"State of public entitled to remedy—Attorney-General or other prosecuting officer.
438. Same subject. 439. Municipal and quasi municipal corporations ..."
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