indictable

How To Use indictable In A Sentence

• For an indictable offence, there is no formal time limit for the commencement of a prosecution.
• The decision whether to treat an offence as summary or indictable is made by the Crown prosecutor after taking into account all the circumstances of the case.
• The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, “Is the Bible Indictable?”, in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling. Autobiographical Sketches
• Charges ranged from forgery and fraud over $5,000 to conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.
• Crimes and misdemeanours are indictable offences…
• Your Honour, the scheme of the legislation, as we say, is dealing with commission of indictable offences.
• Thus, if the jury acquit the accused of the more serious indictable offence, they may still convict of the summary offence.
• But what ` s happening, Jane, if you watch the genesis of this whole investigation, they have known long in advance -- and people have started to lock themselves and back into situations that are perjurous [SIC], that are possibly indictable. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009
• If dealt with in the magistrates court, minor indictable matters are prosecuted by the police.
• Section 494 of the Criminal Code permits the arrest of a person whom one finds committing an indictable offence.