Accomplice

(From ad, to, and coma plicare, to fold up, or wrap together.) In criminal law. One who is joined or united with another; one of several concerned in a felony; an associate in a erime; one who cooperates, aids, or assists in committing it. Yomlins; Jacob. ‘This term includes all the participes eriminis, whether considered in strict legal propriety as principals or as accessaries, 1 Russ. Crimes, 26. It is generally applied to those who are admitted to give evidences against their fellow criminals.

4 Bl. Comm. 331; Hawk. P. C. bk. 2, ¢.

37, St —eeE One who is in some way concerned in the commission of a crime, though not as a prin- ee cipal; and this includes ali persons who have been concerned in ils commission, whether they are considered, in strict legal propriety, ne. as principals in the first or second degree, or merely as accesgaries before or after the fact.

47 Ill. 152; 71 Cal. 20,11 Pae. Rep. 799. eee