Minute Cryptic

Our definition here is 'plot involving axes', and our answer will be a kind of plot that can involve axes. Careful, this definition is designed to trip you up (this is a cryptic clue after all...)!

This clue's indicators are 'Early', 'entered', 'overturned', 'case', and 'dismissed'. Two of these are selection indicators guiding us to focus on one or more specific letters in neighbouring fodder. Another is a deletion indicator - we'll need to delete something from some fodder. This clue also has a containing indicator (some fodder will go inside some other fodder) and a reversal indicator (some fodder will flip around). If you can spot the reversal, that's where I'd start, personally.

This clue's fodder is 'plea' and 'charge'. We'll use these letters (or some of them) to construct our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).