English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "beklag" is 'n formele lesing van kriminele aanklagte in die hof, waartydens die verweerder gevra word om 'n pleit van skuldig of onskuldig in te voer. Dit is tipies een van die eerste stappe in 'n kriminele verhoor, en dit is 'n belangrike regsprosedure waarin die beskuldigde ingelig word oor die aanklagte teen hulle en die geleentheid gegun word om te reageer. Tydens die hofsaak word die verweerder ook tipies ingelig oor hul wetlike regte en kan die geleentheid kry om 'n hofaangestelde prokureur te versoek as hulle nie een kan bekostig nie.

Sentence Examples

  1. The judge is in Willow Falls today, so the arraignment is scheduled for Monday morning.
  2. Nothing in his life, not even his arraignment, had prepared him for being treated with such malice and contempt.
  3. I watch him grimace with pain after he gags trying to eat and I sit with him as he thrashes around in the night, reliving horrors of bounty hunters and his arraignment before his brothers.
  4. He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some secret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to throw every possible impediment in the way of the execution of his sinister plans.