Which preposition to use with acquittals

of Occurrences 33%

To these people the acquittal of Holymead was a foregone conclusion.

by Occurrences 6%

So fearful, at first, was the cruel old baron that some of his intended victims might escape through a verdict of acquittal by a jury, that men were taken from the tribunal of a court-martial directly to the gallows, without the forms of civil law.

from Occurrences 5%

I don't think a verdict of acquittal from a befogged jury would do so much harm in such a case.

in Occurrences 5%

It had been carefully kept from her, and she had supposed that my acquittal in the public mind was as certain as Arthur's.

on Occurrences 4%

In order to avoid the sentence that would have followed an acquittal on the ground of insanity, which would have entailed perhaps lifelong imprisonment, I took upon myself to depart from the usual course, and ask the jury whether, without being insane in the ordinary sense, the woman might not have been at the time of committing the deed in so excited a state as not to know what she was doing.

to Occurrences 2%

Here is a formal proclamation of impunity to murderan express pledge of acquittal to all slaveholders who wish to murder their slaves, a legal absolutionan indulgence granted before the commission of the crime!

as Occurrences 1%

The conversation turned upon Dr. H's trial; for there has been a trial as a matter of form, and an acquittal as a matter of course; and the gentlemen said, upon my expressing some surprise at the latter event, that there could not be found in all Georgia a jury who would convict him, which says but little for the moral sense of 'all Georgia.'

than Occurrences 1%

The demonstrations of joy which followed filled my ears, and doubtless left their impression upon my other senses; but my mind took in nothing but the apparition of my own form taking his place at the bar, under circumstances less favourable to acquittal than those which had exonerated him.

after Occurrences 1%

I'd be violating my oath if I voted for acquittal after that testimony.

Which preposition to use with  acquittals