The sentence "The court found him guilty" is a transitive sentence.
In this sentence:
- "The court" is the subject.
- "found" is the verb.
- "him" is the direct object (the receiver of the action).
- "guilty" is the object complement, describing the state in which "him" was found.
Transitive verbs require a direct object to complete their meaning, and in this case, "him" serves as the direct object that the action of "found" is being applied to.