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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

... 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

... with consternation. The strange apathy of the pavement and the sky, the remissness of the volcanic fires and the celestial thunderbolts in face of this staring profanity, lent the cosmos an air almost of accessory after the fact. Never had the congregation seen Heaven so openly defied, and the consequences did not at all correspond with their deep if undefined forebodings. It is true a horse and carriage dashed into Peleg, the pawnbroker's, window down the street, frightened, Peleg maintained, by the oilskins fluttering ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

Words linked to "Accessory after the fact" : accessary, accessory