Arraign Charlie at the central court in a bad case (6)
I believe the answer is:
accuse
'arraign' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'charlie at the central court in a bad case' is the wordplay.
'charlie' becomes 'C' (phonetic alphabet).
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'the central' means to look at the middle letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a bad' indicates anagramming the letters.
The middle of 'court' is 'u'.
'c'+'u'='cu'
'case' anagrammed gives 'acse'.
'cu' inserted 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" .)