 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 796 pages
...manslaughter in the servant, and murder in the master.3 SECTION HI. OP ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is in some way concerned therein either before or after the fact committed,4 and absence... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...common one : — " Лп<1 you that do abet him in this kind Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all." " An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed." — litackstone.'... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...first and second degree is the same.* * See Accessories and Abettors Act (1861), 24 & 26 Viet, c. 94. An Accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence nor present at its performance, but is in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. In high... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Simmons - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1873 - 572 pages
...these cases, the party oifending is guilty of murder, as a principal in the first degree. (5) 1058. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the Aeee-eorj, offence, nor present at its performance, but is in some way concerned therein, either before... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...degree, yet in general the punishment inflicted upon cither class of offenders is the same (f). II. [An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. In considering... | |
 | Archibald Brown - Law - 1874 - 510 pages
...the actual perpetrator of the crime, or else is present, aiding and abetting the fact to be done ; an accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor yet present at its performance, but is someway concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...it; and yet not administer it himself, nor be present when the deed of poisoning is committed, IT. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact. In considering... | |
 | 1883 - 248 pages
...a felony. It is a felony because it occasioned at common law the forfeiture of goods and lands. 4. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence nor present at its performance, bat is in some way concerned therein either before or after the fact. There are two kinds... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1885 - 988 pages
...a principal or an accessory before or after the fact? In 4 Blackstone's Commentaries,2 it is said: "An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offense, nor present at its performance, but is in some way concerned therein, either before or after... | |
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An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. 
