Abettor

[L. Lat. abettator, abbettator.] In criminal law. An instigator, or setter on, (incitator;) one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed; one who commands, advises, instigates, or encourages another to commit a crime, (qui alium ad facinus aliquod perpetrandum exacuit, tutaturve facturum.) O. N. Br. 21. Spelman, voc.

Abbettator. Cowell.

Now generally applied to a person present, either actually or constructively, at the commission of a crime, who does not commit it with his own hands, but assists, facilitates, or encourages its perpetration.

1 Russell on Crimes, 26, 27. 4 Bl. Com. 33.

Sometimes called a principal in the second degree. Id. ibid.

See Abet.