Murder Charge (Noun)
Meaning
An indictment charging someone with murder.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The prosecutor announced that a grand jury had returned a murder charge against the suspect in connection with the fatal shooting.
- The defendant's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea to the murder charge and requested a trial by jury.
- If convicted of the murder charge, the accused faced life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- The murder charge filed against the teenager was later reduced to manslaughter due to lack of evidence.
- The murder charge was based on testimony from a key witness who claimed to have seen the accused at the scene of the crime.