Innocent Agent
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
One who does the forbidden thing, moved thereto by another person, yet incurs no legal guilt, because either not endowed witlt sufficient mental capacity or not acquainted with the necessary facts, Bish, Cr. L. § 310; Smith v. State, 21 Tex. App. 107, 17 S. W. 662.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In criminal law. One who, being ignorant of any uniawful intent on the part of his principal, is merely the instrument of the guilty party in committing an offense; one who does an unlawful act at the solicitation or request of another, but who, from defect of understanding or ignorance of the inculpatory facts, incurs no legal guilt. Smith v. State, 21 Tex. App, 107, 17 S. W. 552; Slate v. Carr, 28 Or. 389, 42 Pac. 215.
Defined under Innocent in Black's Law Dictionary.