Offense

A crime or misdemeanor; a breach of the criminal laws. Moore v. Illinois, 14 How. 13, 14 In Ed. 306; lilies v. Knight, 3 Tex. 312; People v. French, 102 N. Y. 583, 7 N. E. 913; State v. West, 42 -Minn. 147, 43 N. W. 845. It is used as a genus, comprehending every crime and misdemeanor, or as a species, signifying a crime not indictable,. but punishable summarily or by the forfeiture of a penalty. In re Terry (C. C.) 37 Fed. 649.

— Continuing offense. A transaction or a series of acts set on foot by a single impulse. and operated by an unintermittent force, no matter how long a time it may occupy. People v. Sullivan, 9 Utah, 195, 33 Pac. 701.

— Quasi offense. One which is imputed to the person who is responsible for its injurious consequences, not because he himself committed it, but because the perpetrator of it is presumed to have acted under his commands.