Meaning of stand trial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be put on trial in a court of law; go on trial.
2. To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Also observe that if there be six weeks between the bayl and issue joyning, the Defendant shall not remove his playnt by writ, but shall stand tryall below.”

“Alſo obſerve, That if there be ſix Weeks between the Bail and Iſſue Joyning, the Defendant ſhall not remove his Plaint by Writ, but ſhall ſtand Tryal below.”

“The Witneſſes having been re-examined, a Copy of the Proofs brought againſt the Criminals is uſually given to them, that they may the ſooner determine, whether they will give up the Cauſe, or ſtand Trial, [...]”

“You are to judge between the Commonwealth and the prisoner, who stands trial for the murder, by poison, of Elizabeth Gordon.”

“This anger escalated and later exploded when innocent verdicts were given to four police officers standing trial for the beating of Rodney King.”

“Four years later, in December 1965, an NSRP [National States' Rights Party] member named Hubert Strange, twenty-five, stood trial for killing Willie Brewster, a blue-collar African American.”

“Nay, it ſeems, / My Boy has charg'd thee vvith't, before his yeares / Could vvarrant his ability in Combate, / And ſo is fallen; Or thou, not daring ſtand / Tryall in ſuch a cauſe, by treachery / Haſt cut him off; And com'ſt to make thy peace: / Preſuming on my Poverty, vvith money.”

“At a towne meting in Rye March 1, 1699–1700, the towne hath past a vote that they will not stand tryal with Mr. Woodbridg. At the same towne meting the towne hath by vote agreed that what shall be wanting of the mony that is due to Mʳ Woodbridg from the several persons that hath not yet paid the Remainder of the mony the town will make it up by way of supply in the next towne rate.”

“Those at a distance cannot well conceive how contemptible our Church is abroad, and that owing to the unworthy, immoral, and negligent lives of the generality of our Missionarys, several of which have come over to us, because they could not stand tryal among the dissenters, or have lived too loosely among them.”

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