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In South Africa a military body or command also sometimes an expedition or raid as a commando of a hundred Boers...
Statute pro public commando late interpretanter
Statute pro public commando late interpretanter, a statute made for the public good ought to be liberally construed, Gopalaswami v. Thyagaraja, AIR 1951 Mad 693. (Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1927)...
fedayee
a member of an Arab paramilitary organization predominantly Palestinian which performs commando raids especially against Israel or Israeli targets Usually used in the plural...
Accomplice
Accomplice [fr. complice, Fr., complex, Lat., bound up with one in a project, but always in a bad sense], one concerned with another or others in the commission of a crime, Hawk. P.C. 87. An accomplice could always be called to give evidence, and by virtue of (English) Lord Denman's Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. C. 85), s. 1, even though convicted, and now by virtue of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 36), s. 1, he can with his consent be called for the defence, but should he give evidence tending to incriminate his co-prisoner, such co-prisoner may cross-examine him, R. v. Hadwen, 1902 (1) KB 882; see also R. v. Rowland, 1910 (1) KB 458; R. v. Paul, 1920 (2) KB 183). See APPROVER.The word 'accomplice' has not been defined by the Evidence Act and it is generally understood that an accomplice means a guilty associate or partner in crime. An accomplice by becoming an approver becomes a prosecution witness, M. Shamsudhin v. State of Kerala, (1999) 3 SCC 351 (357): 1995 SCC (Cri)...
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