Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.

Capp was able to refute the accusation by simply showing the original artwork.

Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence – an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake ) have sided with Murray.

This is exactly the accusation put forth by the ancient sources.

* Criminal charge, a formal accusation made before a court by a prosecuting authority

The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;

In consequence of the accusation of Claudia Pulchra, and of some offense which he had given to Caligula, he was accused by the emperor in the senate, but by concealing his own skill in speaking, and pretending to be overpowered by the eloquence of Caligula, he not only escaped the danger, but was made consul suffectus in 39 AD.

Addis Ababa said the assault was in retaliation for the training and support given by Asmara to subversives while Eritrea said the U. S knew of the attacks, an accusation denied by US officials .< Ref >" Eritrean President Discusses Path to Development ", May 18, 2012.

The 1934 accusation stemmed from a letter from a local Communist official found by police which alleged that Cagney would be bringing other Hollywood stars to meetings.

This accusation of idol worship levied against the Templars has also led to the modern belief by some that the Templars practiced witchcraft.

It was a populist / producerist epithet, carrying an implicit accusation that the people it described were insulated from all negative consequences of their programs purported to benefit the poor, and that the costs and consequences of such programs would be borne in the main by working class or lower middle class people who were not so poor as to be beneficiaries themselves.

Jardine, and by extension the entire English team, threatened to withdraw from the fourth and fifth Tests unless the Australian Board withdrew the accusation of unsporting behaviour.

* Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, in the years leading up to World War II, accused newspapers of Marxist bias, an accusation echoed by pro-German media in England and the United States.

In the Cold War context, the term was and is most commonly used by anti-Communists as an accusation of formal fallacy for leftist criticisms of United States foreign policy and military conduct.

The details of his meeting with Kamenev, to whom he confided that Stalin was “ Genghis Khan ” and changed policies to get rid of rivals, were leaked by Trotskyist press and subjected him to accusation of factionalism.

It placed subjects in a situation where an accusation of academic fraud ( cheating ) could be made, of which some subjects were in fact by design actually guilty ( and knew this ), and some were innocent but faced seemingly strong evidence of guilt and no verifiable proof of innocence.

The process of Innocent's beatification was introduced in 1741 by Benedict XIV and continued by Clement XI and Clement XII ; but French influence and the accusation of Jansenism caused it to be suspended in 1744.

But Catholic writers arbitarily reject the emphatic statement of the Duke of Bracciano, one of the leading Catholic nobles of the time. The reputation survived him, and the accusation was used without reservation by Protestant opponents in their polemics against " papism " and Catholic decadence.

* 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.

" The founder of RADACADS and MIM Henry Park went public in November 2008 after facing an unsubstantiated rape accusation from Ann England.

Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. observed that Chambers never provided evidence of Witt's party membership ( just uncorroborated accusation ).

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

And another time, without accusation: `` You never wore that scarf I bought you ''.

Scholars in support of the idea of Amos being from the North also say it makes more sense because of Amaziah's accusation of conspiracy found in chapter seven, verse 10.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

While there is no reason to believe the Arian claim, it can be surmised that he was close enough to 30 years old in 328 for them to contemplate raising such an accusation.

The accusation occurred in front of the bishop of Hexham of the time, Wilfrid, who was present at a feast when some drunken monks made the accusation.

Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

Bragi responds that if they were outside the hall, he would have Loki's head, but Loki only repeats the accusation.

Blood libel ( also blood accusation ) is a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.

The Messianic claim was less significant than the claim to divinity which caused the high priest's horrified accusation of blasphemy and the subsequent call for the death sentence.

As we hear no further accusation on the Easter question — not even in those brought against his successor at Luxeuil Abbey, Eustasius of Luxeuil in 624 — it would appear that after Columbanus had moved to Italy, he gave up the Celtic Easter ( cf.

For example, Phillip E. Johnson makes this accusation of atheism with reference to Charles Hodge's book What Is Darwinism ?.

Achish marches against Saul, but David is excused from the war on the accusation of the Philistine nobles that his loyalty to their cause cannot be trusted.

Less common are well-documented cases with enough evidence to support the accusation.

In essence, the accusation was that the accused committed treason against the " benevolent and righteous " common cause.

This is the generally given reason for El Cid's exile, although several others are plausible and may have been contributing factors: jealous nobles turning Alfonso against El Cid, Alfonso's own animosity towards El Cid, and an accusation of pocketing some of the tribute from Seville.

There is a suggestion that Gallienus invited Roxolani against Regalianus but other historians dismiss the accusation.

Whether there is any truth to the accusation may never be known with any certainty.

An indictment ( ), in the common law system, is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.

At that stage, the complaint is considered merely an accusation.

Such a document is usually called an information, accusation, or complaint, to distinguish it from a grand-jury indictment.

The accusation of having committed a fallacy might rest on either of two grounds: ( 1 ) the relativism on which the bogus defense rests is so simple and meritless that it straightforwardly contradicts the Law of Non-Contradiction ; or ( 2 ) the defense ( and thus the fallacy itself ) is an example of ad hoc reasoning.

This included the offence of sodomy, although there is little substantive evidence for this, and it is more likely that this was the standard accusation Philip made against enemies.

* To rebut the accusation of denying the catholicity and indefectibility of the Church, they say that, between the death of every Pope and the election of his successor, there is a sede vacante period during which there is no visible Head of the Church, and — while mainstream Catholics hold that, according to the dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus of the First Vatican Council, which speaks of " perpetual successors " in the pontificate, there must be, apart from such transitory periods, a perpetual presence of the Bishop of Rome, not merely of his office — that the absence of a Pope has become a long-term feature of the Church's structure.

* Anthony Cekada, an assistant pastor of sedevacantist bishop Daniel Dolan, in his book Work of Human Hands, says that the Mass of Paul VI is invalid and moreover strips down or removes completely every prayer in the Latin Rite which covers subjects such as judgment, heaven and hell, Satan, et al, and suggests that their full-scale removal, if such were to happen, would contribute to a lack of self-discipline and eventual loss of faith and skepticism among Catholics, responding to the post hoc ergo propter hoc accusation above.

The accusation that hedonism is “ doctrine worthy only of swine ” has a long history.

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".