Category: C

Also an accusation or charge of crime.

an act of omission or commission where a person demonstrates the wilful disregard to the rights of other people that results in possible or actual harm.

In criminal law. The crime of lese-majesty, or injuring majesty or royalty; high treason. The term was used by the older English law- writers to denote any crime affecting the king’s person or dignity. It is borrowed from the civil law, in which it signified the undertaking of any enterprise against the emperor or the republic. Inst. 4, 18, 3. Crimen lresae majestatis omnia alia crimina excedit quoad pcenam. 3 Inst 210. The crime of treason exceeds all other crimes in its punishment Crimen omnia ex se natavitiat. Crime vitiates everything which springs from it. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 531. Crimen trahit personam. The crime carries the person, (f, e., the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisdiction over the person of the offender.) People v. Adams, 3 Denio (N. Y.) 100, 210, 45 Am. Dee. 408. Crimina morte extingnuntur. Crimes are extinguished by death.

The crime of rape.

The offense of robbery.

These are crimes that have been created by existing statutes and not common law.

Process which issues to compel a person to answer for a crime or misdemeanor. Ward v. Lewis, 1 Stew. (Ala.) 27.

the name given to a person who has a committed a serious crime. The word can also mean wicked.

A term which is equivalent to crime; or is sometimes used with a slight softening or glossing of the meaning, or as importing a possible question of the legal guilt of the deed.

The proceeding by which a party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and punishment is known as a “criminal action.” Pen. Code Cal.