Crime Flashcards
Accesory
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.
Abettor
Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.
Assault
A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another whether or not injury is inflicted.
Attempt to pervert the course of justice.
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.
Breach of the Peace.
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.
Contempt of Court.
An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.
Culpable and Reckless Fireraising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Culpable Homicide.
Is a crime at common law and is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, where death is caused by improper conduct but the guilt is less than murder.
Forgery and Uttering
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.
Homicide
When a human being kills another human being. the victim must be self-existent, not an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.
House
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.
Lockfast Place
Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key.
Malicious Mischief
A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.
Murder
A crime at common law and is 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.
Offensive Weapon
Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or some other person.
