Crime

Question 1

Abettor.

Answer 1

Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.

Question 2

Accessory.

Answer 2

Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.

Question 3

Assault.

Answer 3

A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another whether or not actual injury is inflicted.

Question 4

Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice.

Answer 4

A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice.

Question 5

Breach of the Peace.

Answer 5

A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.

Question 6

Contempt of Court.

Answer 6

An intentional disrespect or an action against the court’s authority.

Question 7

Culpable and Reckless Fireraising.

Answer 7

Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.

Question 8

Culpable Homicide.

Answer 8

Is a crime at common law and it is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, where deeath is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder.

Question 9

Forgery and Uttering.

Answer 9

A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intender to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person.

Question 10

Fraud.

Answer 10

• Falsehood.
• Fraud.
• Wilful Imposition.