Crime

Question 0

Accessory

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Breach of the peace

Answer 4

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 or cause serious disturbance to the community.

Question 5

Contempt of court

Answer 5

An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority

Question 6

Culpable and reckless fireraising

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Culpable Homicide

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Forgery and uttering

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Fraud

Answer 9

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful imposition

Question 10

Hate crime

Answer 10

A crime motivated by malice or ill-will towards a social group

Question 11

Malicious Mischief

Answer 11

A crime at common law, constituted by wilful, wanton and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another

Question 12

Principle

Answer 12

Is the person who actually commits the crime

Question 13

House

Answer 13

Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons

Question 14

Robbery

Answer 14

A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property by means of violence or threats of violence

Question 15

Wilful fireraising

Answer 15

Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property

Question 16

Perjury

Answer 16

A crime at common law and committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath

Question 17

Lockfast Place

Answer 17

Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, desks, safes, cash boxes, show cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key.

Question 18

Theft

Answer 18

A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority

Question 19

Homicide

Answer 19

When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self existent, not an unborn child. If the child has began to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

Question 20

Wasting Police Time

Answer 20

It is a crime at common law committed by any person who maliciously makes a false statement to the Police with the intention and effect of causing unnecessary police investigation

Question 21

Subornation of Perjury

Answer 21

Crime at common law committed by any person who councils or induces, by any means, a person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings.

Question 22

Drug

Answer 22

Any chemical substance which affects the workings of the mind or body.

Question 23

Murder

Answer 23

Crime at common law committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences xx