Guilty
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor, or offense. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
Cowp. 275.
In Pleading. A plea by which a defendant who is charged with a crime, misdemeanor, or tort admits or confesses it. In criminal proceedings, when the accused is arraigned, the clerk asks him, "How say you, A. B., are you guilty or not guilty?" His answer, which is given ore tenus, is called his "plea"; and when he admits the charge in the indictment, he answers or pleads "guilty."