The phrase "put to trial" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a person or a case being brought before a court of law for judicial proceedings. For example, "The accused was put to trial for fraud."
As the Court stated in Green, "a defendant is placed in jeopardy once he is put to trial before" a factfinder.
Past cases have decided that a defendant, put to trial before a jury, may be subjected to the kind of "jeopardy" that bars a second trial for the same [p35] offense even though his trial is discontinued without a verdict.
The opinion may be read to imply that if Shuttlesworth is now put to trial for violation of § 1142, as construed, the vice of the present conviction may be eliminated.
The votes signaled House members across the nation to head here to the final debate next week on whether President Clinton should be put to trial in the Senate.
[t]his Court, as well as most others, has taken the position that a defendant is placed in jeopardy once he is put to trial before a jury, so that, if the jury is discharged without his consent, he cannot be tried again.
New members are put to trial with respect to their game skills.
This issue will be discussed further in the future, and there is a special tribunal established for putting to trial those who have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
By multiplying drug candidates, robochemistry ought to allow researchers the luxury of selection, putting to trial only those compounds that are the most likely to succeed.
The system was put to repeated trial runs here and in the Mojave Desert, resulting in numerous software modifications.
Poor people are still imprisoned, and even put to death, after trials in which they have shockingly inadequate legal representation.
You become pleased to put them on trial, to examine then, and to discard them if they are found to be without substance.
