"Indictment" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

An indictment is an ac-cusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury, legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which lt ls impaneled, charg-ing that a person therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which, by law, is a publlc offense, punishable on indictment. Code Iowa 1880, | 4295; Pen. Code Cal. 8 917; Code Ala. 1886, | 4364. And see Grin v. Shine, 187 U. 8. 181, 23 Sup. Ct 98, 47 L. Ed. 130; State v. walker, 32 N. G 236; Ex parte Hart, 63 Fed. 259, 11 C. C. A. 165, 28 L. R. A. 801; Ex parte Bain, 121 U. S. 1, 7 Sup. Ct 781, 30 L. Ed. 849; Ex parte Slater, 72 Mo. 102; Finley v. State, 61 Ala. 201

An accusation in general; a formal accusation.

The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the
prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.

The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.