Arraign Charlie at the central court in a bad case (6)
I believe the answer is:
accuse
'arraign' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'charlie at the central court in a bad case' is the wordplay.
'charlie' becomes 'c' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.**).
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the central' says to take the centre.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'a bad' is an anagram indicator.
The central letter of 'court' is 'u'.
'c'+'u'='cu'
'case' anagrammed gives 'acse'.
'cu' put within 'acse' is 'ACCUSE'.
(Other definitions for accuse that I've seen before include "Apportion blame" , "Impute fault to, indict" , "Indict, blame wrongdoing on" , "Put on trial" , "Lay blame or allege guilt" .)