Accomplice

[from ad, to, and complicare, 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 crime; one who co-operates, aids, or assists in committing it.

Tomlins.

Jacob. This term includes all the participes criminis, whether considered in strict legal propriety as principals, or as accessories.

1 Russell on Crimes, 26.

It is generally applied to those who are admitted to give evidence against their fellow criminals.

4 Bl. Com. 331.

Hawk. P. C. b.

2, c. 37, § 7.