Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to prove something (against someone).

1846		Bell’s Life in Sydney 19 Dec. 2/6: The constable, after ‘sheeting it home’ to them [...] declared ’pon his honour that the trouble they gave him on his beat ‘took away his appetite’.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 2 May 5/3: A more horrible case of cold-blooded secret poisoning for the sake of gain […] is not recorded in the annals of crime. So far as anything in this world can be certain, the charge has been clearly sheeted home and proved to the hilt.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Apr. 15/1: Advanced him a fiver to build one; but when my cockie heard that Mulligan had bought half-a-dozen sheets of iron, he nosed round until he was able to sheet home to me the charge of financing Mulligan.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Dec. 32/2: Five youths are now under arrest on suspicion [...]. There will probably be a hanging if the case is sheeted-home, and yet the Vance murder is just the ordinary Melbourne 10s. brutal assault with a kick delivered in the wrong place by accident.
1901		Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Aug. 31/2: They had at length been caught, and one specific charge of selling two Mausers for £8 was sheeted home to them.
1960		N. Hilliard Maori Girl 160: Their sketchy knowledge would be useless in sheeting paternity home to him.
1966		J. Holledge Great Aust. Gamble 142: ‘I’ve got enough witnesses here to sheet home a slander charge against you’.

2. in non-criminal contexts, to prove something.

1901

Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Aug. 12/4: Her pearl necklace [...], and strings upon strings of the big, nobby Venetian chain (the latest thing in jewels) helped to sheet home her distinction.