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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 763.6

  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Indictment: means 1 or more of the following:
    (i) An indictment. See Michigan Laws 761.1
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  •      If any person who is indicted or informed against for any offense shall on his trial be acquitted upon the grounds of a variance between the indictment or information and the proof or upon any insufficiency or irregularity in the form or substance of the indictment, he may be arraigned again on a new indictment for the same offense, notwithstanding such former acquittal.