answer to a charge

Maybe he'll have to answer to a charge of murder!"

The Speaker's contention that his public appearance "was never conditioned on a purchase of books" is a misleading answer to a charge not made.

'It's a warrant ordering the arrest of Meredith Putt to answer to a charge of murder.

The assizes coming on Martin served a summons on Eyre to appear before the judges and answer to a charge of larceny.

Such consent would not be an answer to a charge of assault, and the policy reasons that forbid consenting adults to engage in fighting for the purposes of assault should apply equally in the case of an affray.

The Earls of Buchan, Huntly, and Lennox, Lord Forbes and others, who had fought for James III, were summoned to appear before Parliament and answer to a charge of treason.

And to make sure that I knew that he was not... ah ... absolutely happy, he said that if his son was forced to answer to a charge of theft he would name us as co-defendants in a criminal libel suit.

Burke wrote that "My Idea was to proceed not so much by way of a direct answer to a charge, though that too, obliquely, was not be neglected; as in the way of a charge on your Enemies, so as to put them upon their defence".