Accomplice at Legal Glossary What is it? Someone who helps another person (known as the principal) commit a crime. Unlike an accessory, an accomplice is usually present when the crime is committed.
Accomplice: 1. A partner in a crime. 2. A person who knowingly and voluntarily participates with another in a criminal activity.
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ACCOMPLICE - one who voluntarily and intentionally joins with another person in committing a crime. You should consider such testimony with greater caution than that of an ordinary witness.
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n. someone party in a crime. Someone who has not committed, yet is involved in some way concerned in the commission of a crime.
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accomplice A person who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent joins with the principal offender in the commission of a crime.
ACCOMPLICE - One who participates in the commission of a crime, other that the person actually doing that act constituting the crime.
ACCOMPLICE, crim. law. This term includes in its meaning, all persons who have been concerned in the commission of a crime, all particepes crimitis, whether they are considered in strict legal propriety, ...
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Someone who helps another person (known as the principal) commit a crime. Unlike an accessory, an accomplice is usually present when the crime is committed.
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Individual who voluntarily engages with another in the commission or attempted commission of a crime
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evidence should be found before the finder of fact relies upon the evidence of a witness whose testimony occupies a central position in the purported demonstration of guilt and yet may be suspect by reason of the witness being an accomplice or ...
King’s Evidence A term used in monarchies synonymous with "state’s evidence" in the US, where one of a number of accused persons is given immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying against his alleged accomplices and ...
Abigail Hobbs, Mary Warren, and Deliverance Hobbs all confessed and began naming additional people as accomplices. More arrests followed: Sarah Wildes, William Hobbs (husband of Deliverance and father of Abigail), Nehemiah Abbott Jr.
: bound or obligated according to law or equity <one is ~ as an accomplice to the crime of another W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr.> <the estate is ~ for succession taxes Commissioner of Revenue Services v. Estate of Culpepper, 493 A.
State's Evidence - Testimony given by an accomplice or participant in a crime tending to convict others.
Statute - The written law decided by the legislative branch of government.
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As Home Secretary Maxwell-Fyfe refused clemency to Derek Bentley who had a mental age of 11 and was hanged after a policeman was shot dead by his accomplice Craig who could not be hanged because he was under-age.
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The eldest part: the share of the oldest coparcener. Pars rationabilis. Reasonable part. Particeps. A part-taker: a participant. Particeps criminis. A fellow criminal; an accomplice. Plural participes.
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