 | 1907 - 1350 pages
...and he with aiding and abetting her. According to Blackstone (Bla. Comm. (8th ed.), Vol. IV., p. 35), 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." Therefore... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1905 - 954 pages
...Blackstone is generally conceded to be correct and is almost universally followed. In defining it he says : "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... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1909 - 732 pages
...(app.) ». SADLBR (resp.). [KB Div. for Blackstone (Bk. 4, ch. 3, p. 35) says : " An accessory ia be 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." Therefore... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1916 - 1376 pages
...criminal, much less a superior in the guilt, whom he could aid, abet or assist.' § 37. 2. Accessories. — An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offense, nor present at its performance, but is some way concerned therein, either before or after... | |
 | Augustin Derby - 1923 - 856 pages
...principal or an accessory before and after the fact? In 4 Blackstone's Commentaries, 35, 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... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1979 - 228 pages
...Puts . . . in.] Dyce. 342. Suffer] allow. 344. accessary] OED quotes Blackstone's legal definition: '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'. 351. misgives... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - 1999 - 504 pages
...or 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 present at its performance, but is someway concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. An accessory... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 632 pages
...present when it is taken or administered. Many cases of the like nature may be easily put. An aecessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor...either before or after the fact is committed. If he proeures, oounselt, ahets or commands the crime, and is absent at its commission, he is deemed an accessory... | |
 | 1880 - 810 pages
...authorities, he places himself in the position, or very nearly so, of being accessory after the fact. An accessory is " he who is not the chief actor in the perpetration of an offence, nor present at its performance, but in some way accedes to or becomes concerned... | |
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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. 
