England and Wales
Historically, defendant was a legal term for a person prosecuted for misdemeanour. It was not not applicable to a person prosecuted for felony.
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Famous quotes containing the words england and/or wales:
“Think how stood the white pine tree on the shore of the Chesuncook, its branches soughing with the four winds, and every individual needle trembling in the sunlight,—think how it stands with it now,—sold, perchance, to the New England Friction-Match Company!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find.”
—Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948)