prisoner at the bar
prisoner in the dock

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

For nine years the prisoner at the bar did not adequately support his family.

Secondly, whether the prisoners at the bar were guilty of it.

Now, was that somebody brother to the prisoner at the bar?'

The worst was when they told him to look at the prisoner at the bar.

"Look upon the prisoner at the bar, and say whether she is guilty or not guilty."

A culprit, under English law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime.

"Theodore Wieland, the prisoner at the bar, was now called upon for his defence.

"Members of the jury, do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty as charged?"

Now I'll bet there isn't a man here who can spell "pterodactyl," not even the prisoner at the bar.

"The prisoner at the bar, at the time of which I am now speaking, was staying as a guest in my house.

Through the silence Andrew thought, Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say before judgment is passed on you?

So he arranged the date, like any judge passing sentence on a prisoner at the bar, and then proceeded to fabricate an alibi.

"Prisoners at the bar, stand up.

Never, I sincerely believe, were two more ill-assorted persons united in the bonds of matrimony than the prisoner at the bar and his deceased wife."

"Prisoner at the bar, the Crown, by unreservedly withdrawing this dreadful charge against you, has demonstrated your innocence in the clearest possible way.

She made no effort to speak, but stood rigidly as if waiting for some dread pronouncement, like a convicted prisoner at the bar about to receive sentence.

On the prisoner at the bar pleading not guilty, the clerk of the crown answered culpable, and states that he was ready (prest) to join issue.

The judge, Chief Baron Alexander, was unhappy with the coverage given to the case by the press "to the manifest detriment of the prisoner at the bar".

No one was allowed to express pity for the prisoners at the bar, for such pity was a sign of counter-revolutionary tendencies and, as such, punishable by death.

Already he felt, as he sat ensconced behind a table in the far corner of the room, that he was a prisoner at the bar, answering for his failure with his life.

It will generally be phrased as "Prisoner at the Bar, you have been found Guilty by a jury of your peers of the offense of XYZ.

We understand, however, that we are to well and truly try the case between our sovereign lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, neither of whom has put in an appearance as yet.

And all persons who are bound by recognizance to prosecute or give evidence against the prisoner at the bar, let them come forth, prosecute, and give evidence, or they forfeit their recognizances.

"The prisoners in the dock were with me when I entered the ship."

The doctor stood before the Premier like a prisoner in the dock.

A rather wistful smile passed across the face of the prisoner in the dock.

A pretty prisoner in the dock is not easily convicted."

Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence, one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock.

I have been in rooms where journalists treated them as prisoners in the dock.

As we approach, crowd melts gradually away, and next moment we come upon these three men, now prisoners in the dock.

Beatrice drooped upon her seat like a fading lily, or a prisoner in the dock.

There was a short silence; then the Judge asked him if he might take it that he was referring to the prisoner in the dock.

(The six manacled and shackled prisoners in the dock were the aliens.)

The judge gave vent to a faint murmur of disapprobation, and the prisoner in the dock leant forward angrily.

Although Ludendorff was easily the most famous of the ten prisoners in the dock, Hitler at once grabbed the limelight for himself.

And guilt-ridden prisoners in the dock saw menace in the thick black eyebrows and piercing eyes.

Al Obaydi stood and waited, like a prisoner in the dock hoping to be told by the judge that he might at least be allowed to sit.

Strictly they do not see the prisoner in the dock; all they see is the usual man in the usual place.

He had six shackled and manacled prisoners in the dock (they were even chained together by iron collars), and they looked like a rowdy and defiant bunch.

She sat upon her bed in the tent and by her sat Alan, holding her hand, while before them stood Aylward like a prisoner in the dock, and behind him the armed Jeekie.

Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock cannot always understand; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow (though there are also valid scientific reasons for this); and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand.