find guilty

find (one) guilty

To determine and declare in court that one is guilty of a crime. How serious do you think the prison sentence will be if the jury finds him guilty?
See also: find, guilty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

find someone guilty

 and find someone innocent; find someone not guilty
to decide guilt or innocence and deliver a verdict in a court of law. The judge found the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found the defendant innocent.
See also: find, guilty
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • find (one) guilty
  • plead guilty (to something)
  • plead guilty to
  • plead not guilty (to something)
  • find (one) not guilty
  • acquit
  • acquit (one) of (something)
  • acquit of
  • find against
  • find against (someone or something)