Arraignment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 232 U.S. 642 - William Garland v. State of Washington · 1914Most cited · 482 citing opinions
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The object of arraignment being to inform the accused of the charge against him and obtain an answer from him was fully subserved in this case, for the accused had taken objections to the second information, and was put to trial before a jury upon that information in all respects as though he had entered a formal plea of not guilty.
How often courts cite the case defining “Arraignment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Arraignment” — 480 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.