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The Acts of Offenders Accessory may be synchrony. Offences
Accessory cannot exist but in succession.
In every Act the number of persons concerned will must be either
one or several.
If several, the several different different parts which they may be
conceived capable of assuming are as follows.
The part a man takes may be performed —
By energy {Mental or Corporal} & this in point of place either {In presence or In absence}
with respect to the Scene of the principal Action.
In point of time either {or Previously.
In order to illustrate this we will suppose a given crime
for example Murder to have been perpetrated & in that
& previous perpetration we will further suppose all the different
persons concerned upon the occasion of each a —
transaction, to have been assumed, of those
parts we will follow the order of Chronology: & will
assume but one person for each part for the greater
simplicity but will assume a different one for each for
the greater distinctness of the
First then comes he whose original conception it was
to do the deed: it is he who is the principal actor by
mental energy: him we may denominate The Prime
mover He engages some other person to do the Deed:
such other person will then be the Prime Actor in Corporeal
energy. In the mean time in order to work up
the person last mentioned to his resolution others have
concurred by their influence: one standing to him in the
relation of a superiority by his command, His Master
for example others standing towards him in the relation
of equals or inferiors by persuasion: & of these again some
by the display of motives already existing & those applying
one to his Interest the other his Conscience to his Interest
or by telling him that such & such persons will think
well of it:
To his Conscience: as by telling him that the party is a
Heretic, & God's enemy, one by advice on his own account
another by entreaty; another by the creation as by
Him.
This being concluded &l time & place agree on one goes
to the person to be murder'd, to engage him in some one
of the ways above numerated to be at the place destined
for his distruction — others to his Friends servants and
OFFENDERS Accessory - Their parts exemplified [BR][7]
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Relations to prevent their being in the way to lend him
assistance — Thus far before the time,
When the time comes one stands aloof to keep watch another
gives the blow, another holds the party down a 4th
keeps watch over the spot
Qu if a Misprisoner represented his part.
Estimation of the respective importance of these several
haste 1st Take away the Prime mover you take away
the while — 2d Take away the principal perpetrator Actor you take
away all the rest: but still the Prime Mover may himself
assume that part take away any of the others, you
take away but him.
In the Valley of Sangpré in Ricardy about the time of
the Religious wars in the reign of Hen. 3d of France,
lived two Gentlemen De la Chacefoye, & Doucereau —
They were near neighbours but neighbourhood which
when it — with the seeds of sympathy already sown
in two breasts, cherishes the growth of friendship, serves
only to administer fewel to the fire of discord.
De la Chacefoye was of the Religion established: Doucereau
was become a zealous proselyte to Hugenotism De la Chacefoye
stood next in remainder to a... then in possession
of Doucereau — Law Suit — Superiority at School Rivalry
in Love Aspilongua the Confessor.
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