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Justifiable homicide
instances: (a) Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the … his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a
tax evasion
tax evasion : a willful and esp. criminal attempt to evade the imposition or payment of a tax [convicted of tax evasion]
abet
abet abet·ted abet·ting : to assist, encourage, instigate, or support with criminal intent in attempting or carrying out a crime often used in the phrase aid and abet abet·ment n … abet abet·ted abet·ting : to assist, encourage, instigate, or support with criminal intent in attempting or carrying out a crime often used in the phrase aid and abet abet·ment n abet·tor also abet·ter
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inchoate
solicitation, or conspiracy) which consists of acts that are preliminary to another crime and that are in themselves criminal compare choate … Fire & Police Pension Ass'n, 759 P.2d 720 (1988)"] 2 : of or relating to a crime (as attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy) which consists of acts that are preliminary to another crime and that are in themselves
Son of Sam law
of his story a 1977 New York statute attempted to divert to his victims] : a law preventing criminals from profiting from media depictions (as in books or films) of their crimes … of serial killer David Berkowitz, whose profits from the sale of his story a 1977 New York statute attempted to divert to his victims] : a law preventing criminals from profiting from media depictions (as in books
Tampering
instance of engaging in improper or under handed dealings, especially an attempt to influence; tampering an offence is criminal offence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1468
Fugitive criminal
Matched in: Term Fugitive criminal
Execution of criminals
Execution of criminals, must be performed by the legal officer-the sheriff, or his deputy. The Common Law mode of execution is … as the sheriff requires, or allows. Public execution is, however, still necessary in the case of piracy with attempted murder. See PIRACY.
Rape
years, or to be imprisoned for not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. See also the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, by s. 4 of which connection induced by personation of the woman's husband is … v. Marsden, (1891) 2 QB 149]. See ABUSING CHILDREN. In order to find an accused guilty of an attempt with intent to commit a rape, court has to be satisfied that the accused, when he laid hold
Misdemeanour
person on an indictment for felony could be convicted of a misdemeanour; but various statutory enactments--.g., the (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100), s. 9, by which a person indicted for any … and not having paid for it within four months of bankruptcy, which are misdemeanours by statute; and any attempt to commit a felony or misdemeanour, whether the crime attempted be so by statute or Common Law (Arch.
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