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The charges may be correct, but you have arraigned the wrong defendants.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few minutes the original complainant returned, to whom 'Squire House explained that he should have arraigned the proprietor of the store, and not the clerk as he had done.

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin

Had my good-consort heard you she would have arraigned you to appear at a Court of Love with a jury of virgins to answer for your sins.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Had they, themselves, been prisoners accused of treason, he could not have arraigned them more ferociously.

From Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael

You have arraigned my client for killing a man, and yet have shown nobody killed!

From Gaut Gurley by Thompson, D. P.