"convict on" is not a standard phrase in English and is not considered correct.
It is not something we use in written or spoken English.
To convict on a murder charge, the government must prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's amazing to me that the jury managed to convict on one count.
Chief Justice Roberts said the judge had acted appropriately, as "the jury's options in this case were limited to two: either convict on one of the offenses, or acquit on all".
We had an escaped convict on the bus in Texas one time who stole our drugs.
"It may be that what you had was a bargain," Judge Kaplan said, speculating (perhaps based on news reports) that 11 jurors might have voted to convict on all counts, but there was one holdout.
The first trial ended in a hung jury when one of the jurors refused to convict on the grounds that he lacked "circumstantial evidence in the fourth degree".
So cases often come down to one person's word against another and juries are understandably unwilling to convict on that basis.The belief that there are different types of rape, of differing degrees of seriousness, is not confined to juries.
Even a kangaroo court would struggle to convict on this evidence.
Military tribunals can convict on evidence the defendant has not seen.
"You can't convict on both theories," Justice Erlbaum told the assistant district attorney, Scott Kessler.
The prosecutors pressed the jury to convict on at least two charges: endangering the welfare of a child and assault.
