Category: C

These are the methods of the law that apply to the apprehension, trial and punishment of the accused.

An action or proceeding instituted in a proper court on behalf of the public for the purpose of securing the conviction and punishment of one accused of crime. Harger v. Thomas. 44 Pa. 128, 84 Am. Dec. 422; Ely v. Thompson, 3 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 70. As to criminal ÒConspiracy,Ó ÒContempt,Ó ÒInformation,Ó ÒJurisdiction,Ó ÒLibel,Ó ÒNegligence,Ó ÒOperation,Ó see those titles.

A term in medical jurisprudence where an accuser’s mental capacity to understand the charges against him and may have no knowledge of the crime.

That which pertains to or is connected with the law of crimes, or the administration of penal justice, or which relates to or has the character of crime. Charleston v. Beller, 45 W. Va. 44, 30 S. E. 152; State v. Burton, 113 N. C. 655, IS S. E. 657.

One who has committed a criminal offense; one who bas been legally convicted of a crime; one adjudged guilty of crime. Molineux v. Collins. 177 N. Y. 395. 09 N. E. 727, 65 L. R. A. 104.

This term is used, in distinction or opposition to the word “civiliter,” civilly, to distinguish a criminal liability or prosecution from a civil one.

a state of mental illness where a person is unable to determine between right and wrong and as a result will commit unlawful acts.

the term that is given to a wound that is caused by an illegal attack on another person’s body.

The intent to commit a crime: malice, as evidenced by a criminal act; an intent to deprive or defraud the true owner of his property. People v. Moore. 3 N. Y. Cr. R. 458. Ê(source: Black’s Law Dictionary)

The method pointed out by law for the apprehension. trial, or prosecution, and fixing the punishment. of those persons who have broken or violated, or are supposed to have broken or violated, the laws prescribed for the regulation of the conduct of the people of the community, and who have thereby laid themselves liable to fine or imprisonment or other punishment. 4 Amer. & Eng. Ene. Law. 730.