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" An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. "
The Encyclopedia Americana: A General Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences ... - Page 9
edited by - 1903
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Summary of the Law Relative to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases: With ...

John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1831 - 624 pages
...again indicted for the same offence. 7 G. 4, c. 64, s. 9. Accessaries after the fact] — An accessary after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon, 1 Hale, 618. 4 Bl. Com. 37, whether...
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An Exposition of the Criminal Laws of the State of Louisiana: Or, Kerr's ...

Lewis Kerr - Criminal law - 1840 - 132 pages
...of those concerned in the same offence, according to the apparent degree of their respective guilt. An accessory after the fact is, one "who knowing a...have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the felon." I fíale PC 618. Assisting a felon to escape from, or resist those who would...
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Dickinson's Guide to the Quarter Sessions and Other Sessions of the Peace ...

William Dickinson - Criminal law - 1841 - 1196 pages
...theft which one is to execute ; or if a person incites a servant to embezzle the goods of his master. An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, harbours, relieves, comforts, or assists the principal, or accessory before the fact, with a view to...
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Notes on Military Law: Proceedings of Courts Martial; Etc

Frederick Augustus Griffiths - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1841 - 226 pages
...offence of accessary, that the party should be absent at the time the offence is committed. An Accessary after the fact is one, who knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. A wife, however, is Archbuld. not punishable...
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the ..., Volume 1

John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...accessary to the acts of a madman, but a principal in the first degree. Post. 340; 1 PC 118. An accessary after the fact, is one who knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. 4 Bl. Com. 37. No one who is a principal (qv) can be an accessary. In certain...
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A Treatise on the Law of Coroner: With Copious Precedents of Inquisitions ...

Richard Clarke Sewell - Coroners - 1843 - 406 pages
...and he kills another, they are guilty as principals in the first degree. (s) Accessary An Accessary after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. (<) (0 1 Hale, 618.; 4 Black. Com. 37.; 2 Hawk. c. 29. s. 1. ; 3 P. Wms. 475....
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The Criminal Law, and Its Sentences, in Treasons, Felonies, and Misdemeanors ...

Peter Burke - Criminal law - 1844 - 294 pages
...command, or abet another to commit a felony. 1 Hale, 6l6. 3. Accessaries after the Fact. — An accessary after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon, whether he be a principal or an accessary...
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Dickinson's Guide to the Quarter Sessions: And Other Sessions of the Peace

William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd - Court rules - 1845 - 1268 pages
...procure, set on or stir up any other to do the fact, Foster, 12fi ; East's PC 641 ; 2 Haw. c. 33, s. 65. An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, harbours, relieves, comforts, or assists the principal, or accessory before the fact, with a view to...
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Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the ..., Volume 1

Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1846 - 598 pages
...law, to make a man an accessary after the fact, he must have given the felon some personal assistance. "An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon." (1 Hale, 61 8 ; Archbold's Crim. Law,...
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Archbold's Summary of the Law Relating to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal ...

John Frederick Archbold - Criminal procedure - 1846 - 914 pages
...or tried for the same offence. 7 G. 4. c. 64, s. 9. Accessaries after the facl.~\ — An ascessary after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. 1 Hale, 618; 4 Bl. Com. 37; 2 Hawk....
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