Difference between Convict and Indict

CONVICT vs INDICT: NOUN

A person proved or found guilty of an offense alleged against him; espeeially,one found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision; hence, a person undergoing penal servitude; a convicted prisoner.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.

Accuse formally of a crime
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
To make a formal accusation or indictment against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

To return a verdict of guilty in a court.
To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.
To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn.
To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court.

To charge (a party) by indictment.
To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely.
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

To confute; prove or show to be false.
To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
To prove or find guilty of an offense charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge to be guilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision: as, to convict the prisoner of felony.
To show by proof or evidence.
Overcome; conquered.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.

To compose; write: properly and still usually written indite (which see.)
To appoint publicly or by authority; proclaim.
To find chargeable with a criminal offense, and in due forms of law to accuse of the same, as a means of bringing to trial: specifically said of the action of a grand jury. See indictment.
Synonyms Charge, Indict, etc. See accuse.

Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Indict, Conviction, Gaolbird, Con, Jailbird, Inmate

Extradite, Arraign, Acquit, Process, Try, Condemns, Acknowledge, Charge, Blame, Condemn, Sue, Accuse, Impeach, Convict, Prosecute

Detained, Accused, Convince, Prisoners, Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Con, Inmate

Dismiss, Arrest, Incriminate, Imprison, Detain, Implicate, Process, Try, Acknowledge, Charge, Blame, Condemn, Impeach, Convict, Prosecute

His opinion helped convict a lot of people.
Charges: felony domestic assault, false imprisonment, convict mittimus.
Miscellaneous convict ledgers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Yet the convict does not openly acknowledge Pip.
Technically, to convict him of war crimes is to convict him of ending the war.
World Heritage listed Port Arthur Historic Site is the best preserved convict site in Australia, and among the most significant convict era sites worldwide.
In America, for example, incarcerating a federal convict costs eight times as much as putting the same convict on probation.
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the convict leasing period and what it meant to be a convict in the system.
Various attempts to convict him of assisted suicide, however, were stymied by juries refusing to convict.
He then asked me if I could convict William Cummings; he said that if I could convict Bill, I need not convict myself.

The reason you did not indict Donald Trump.
We would never indict for any of these.
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr should indict President Clinton.
Justice Department policies, could indict a sitting president.
And yet you chose not to indict them.
Indict Barak, Livni and Olmer for war crimes!
County prosecutor plans to indict Vick - Yahoo.
The reason, again, that you did not indict Donald Trump is because of OLC opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?
Eamon Aloyo, To Indict or Not to Indict?
Federal grand juries do two things: indict people (or occasionally decline to indict them) and help prosecutors conduct investigations.