A bill of indictment found by a grand jury to be supported by sufficient evidence to justify prosecution.
〈美〉〔律〕大陪审团签署的起诉书
Example sentencesExamples
At least twelve of the jurymen had to find a true bill to present a defendant to further trial.
A grand jury that heard some 50 witnesses, including me, returned a verdict of ‘no true bill,’ exonerating the officers.
Though arrested, she never faced trial as the grand jury did not find a true bill against her, presumably on the ground that she had behaved as an automaton.
On February 23, 1994, they returned a verdict of ‘no true bill.’
At the assizes in July 1754, the jury found a true bill against William Arundel, a tailor of York, ‘for traitorously and seditiously taking down from Micklegate Bar the heads of two rebels there affixed’.
Definition of true bill in US English:
true bill
nountro͞o bil
US Law
A bill of indictment found by a grand jury to be supported by sufficient evidence to justify the hearing of a case.
〈美〉〔律〕大陪审团签署的起诉书
Example sentencesExamples
At the assizes in July 1754, the jury found a true bill against William Arundel, a tailor of York, ‘for traitorously and seditiously taking down from Micklegate Bar the heads of two rebels there affixed’.
Though arrested, she never faced trial as the grand jury did not find a true bill against her, presumably on the ground that she had behaved as an automaton.
On February 23, 1994, they returned a verdict of ‘no true bill.’
At least twelve of the jurymen had to find a true bill to present a defendant to further trial.
A grand jury that heard some 50 witnesses, including me, returned a verdict of ‘no true bill,’ exonerating the officers.