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Indirect Legislation
Accessory
One may distinguish four sorts of accessory offences.
The first involves a formed intention to committ the
principal. These are comprisable under the general
terms of attempts and preparations.
The second involves no such attention as formed at
the time but place the offe offender in a situation
in which there is danger of his conceiving such a
design in future. Thus gaming, prodigality and
idleness when coupled with poverty are accessory to
offences of indigence: cruelty towards animals to
offences of the irascible appetite as also to robbery & such
other offences of indigence as depend upon corporal injuries
for their accomplishment: fornication to chi voluntary abortion
and infanticide.
The third involve not any such criminality of intention at the
time nor so much as any actual or probable.
The pernicious consequences that may ensue from
them are independent of that circumstance. It is
possible that such criminality may accompany them:
but this is a matter of accident and the criminality
of them does depends not upon that ground:
for in that event they belong in might pass for the first class pass
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