The author of the research provides the explanation of the concept of criminal proceedings, its content, explores and analyzes the possibilities of amending the incrimination in court hearing process and its application in practice by studying and analyzing the legal literature, legal regulation and practice materials. Researching the Criminal Proceedings Law paragraphs 461 and 462 application in practice, the author has identified that public prosecutors, amending the incrimination in court hearing process, often indicate only the paragraph, without pointing the way the incrimination was amended, which does not allow to draw a conclusion if the way of incrimination amending has been understood correctly, as well as the incrimination amendm...