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Definition of Not guilty
1. Adjective. Declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless. "The jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity"
Definition of Not guilty
1. Noun. (legal) A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged. ¹
3. Noun. A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal. ¹
4. Noun. A person who has been acquitted of a crime. ¹
5. Adjective. (legal) Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law. ¹
6. Adjective. (nonstandard) Innocent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Not Guilty
Literary usage of Not guilty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"It remains that I consider the general issue, or plea of "not guilty." In case
of an indictment of felony or treason, there can be no special justification ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Criminal law ®=»768(I)—Charge as to effect of plea of not guilty on two counts
of Indictment held not misleading. In a prosecution for forgery under an ..."
3. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
""GUILTY" OR "not guilty" known what his course would be henceforth. If he had
twenty votes, he said now, they would be cast against Johnson.1 The managers ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"12 sel on behalf of the accused, to quash the indictment, which was overruled by
the court; and he thereupon pleaded not guilty, upon which issue was joined ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... or not guilty ? come, priests, answer: and did not the whore set up all these
things, and the beast that killed the true ministers, martyrs, prophets, ..."
6. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"JC 1 must not wrong my conscience, I am not guilty of what is false, as I said
before; what is true, I am guilty of; what is not true, I am not guilty of ..."
7. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"... where the judges in review have solemnly ruled that special pleas cannot be
pleaded in addition to the plea of not guilty. n And in this country, ..."
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