Criminal Attempt
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Whenever one intending to commit a particular crime does an act toward it, but is interrupted, or some accident intervenes, so that he fails to accomplish what he meant, he is said to have been guilty of a criminal attempt.
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