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Abettator

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Lat.

In old English law

An abettor. Fleta, lib.

2, c. 65, § 7.

See Abettor. The distinction between abettors and accessaries is the presence or absence at the commission of the crime. Cowell; Fleta, lib.

1, c. 34.

Presence and participation are necessary to constitute a person an abettor.

Green v. State, 13 Mo. 382; State v. Teahan, 50 Conn. 92; Connaughty v. State, 1 Wis. 159, 60 Am. Dec. 370.