guilty

guilty
Having committed a crime or other breach of conduct; justly chargeable with a crime; responsible for a crime or tort or other offense or fault. The word used by an accused in pleading or otherwise answering to an indictment when he confesses to the crime of which he is charged, and by the jury in convicting a person on trial for a particular crime. The connotation of such word is "evil," "wrongdoing," or "culpability." Hilkert v. Canning, 58 Ariz. 290, 119 P.2d 233, 236

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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