The phrase "a simple offence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a minor crime that is typically punishable by a fine or a short term of imprisonment.
Example: "The defendant was charged with a simple offence, which did not warrant a lengthy trial."
Alternatives: "a minor offense" or "a petty crime".
Her quips were always tempered by a naive backhandedness, as though ending every biting insult with a simple "no offence" would do the trick.
To which he replies with a story about a 10-year-old girl at Delaram whose eyes were sprayed with acid for the simple offence of going to school.
The big-hitting West Indian on Tuesday had described his attempt to flirt with the Network Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin live on air as a "simple joke" with no offence or disrespect intended.
This would have made escape difficult and would have increased the chances of a bystander's getting killed, thus raising a simple holdup to the enormity of a capital offence.
But a ruck offence from the home side allowed Halfpenny a simple shot at goal, adding to his earlier penalty that had opened the scoring.
"If that has caused any offence to anyone we apologise for that and want to reassure people that it was a simple error of judgement more than anything else".
"If that has caused any offence to anyone we apologise for that and want to reassure people that it was a simple error of judgment more than anything else".
But such a simple account fails to acknowledge the world that pretext stops create – a world in which Dozier is arrested for an offence that white drivers commit with impunity.
If the offence was caused to any other woman, the BBC would have defended its actions, and at most issued a simple and straightforward apology.
The council's senior policy adviser, Jackie Burney, explains that previously sentencing guidance was limited to magistrates' courts and related only to simple possession offences.
It will not, however, make simple possession of legal highs a criminal offence.
