acquittal vs statement

acquittal

noun
  • Avoidance of danger; deliverance. 

  • A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. 

  • The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. 

  • Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. 

statement

noun
  • A declaration or remark. 

  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

How often have the words acquittal and statement occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )