prefer charges against

Example Sentences

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I told Gen. Butler I would have to prefer charges against him if he neglected his duty in that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belden has seized the moment to prefer charges against me for keeping Settle in the service and for putting a non-resident on the roll as guard.

From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin

The next day Colonel Albright reported the affair to General French, commanding the division, who promptly advised him to prefer charges against the culprit and make an example of him.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)

Since then he has gone part-way back to the land of romance, and if he will stay there I shall not prefer charges against him.

From The Crow's Nest by Day, Clarence

The captain of the company in which P.D. was placed told him he did not believe he was ugly about it, and that he could only put him under arrest and prefer charges against him.

From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew