WordNet
prosecuting officer
n. a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state [syn: prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting attorney]
Usage examples of "prosecuting officer".
The prosecuting officer looking over his sights could see only their boiling wake now.
There was a moment of shuffling relaxation in the court-room, and then the Prosecuting Officer rose to cross-examine me.
The prosecuting officer who had attempted for the two previous days to damn him and send him to the gallows, glanced up at Clinton, and then hurriedly, almost guiltily, returned his eyes to the documents he held in his right hand.
If we had to arrest him for murder it would have to be done by the chief himself, along with the chief prosecuting officer.