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/æksˈɛsəri ˈæftər ðə fækt/ Listen

Accessory after the fact

noun

A person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony.

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"Accessory after the fact" Quotes from Famous Books

... one belonging to me to make light of. So it behoved me to make inquiry. Of the letter itself I could make neither head nor tail; but two things were clear—that that loon of a boy, my son Alec, was in it, and also that his mother was "accessory after the fact," as the Kirkcudbright lawyers say. In the latter case it was necessary to act with circumspection. In the other case I should probably have acted instantly ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... a term of years on the charge of being an accessory after the fact, but Moriarity, in consideration of the valuable services he had rendered the ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... of that. You were an accessory after the fact. And if the public knew that you had acquiesced in the death of your sister and had held your tongue for years, you would not be popular. I fear your books ...

— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume

... his boots, and without further disrobing rolled himself into his gray blanket. As he was dropping asleep two phrases flashed across his brain. They were: "compounding a felony," and "accessory after the fact." ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... boots, and without further disrobing rolled himself into his gray blanket. As he was dropping asleep two phrases flashed across his brain. They were: "compounding a felony," and "accessory after the fact." ...

— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White