Legal Definition and Related Resources of Aiding and abetting

In criminal law. The offense committed by those persons, who, although not the direct perpetrators of a crime, are yet present at its commission, doing some act to render aid to the actual perpetrator thereof. 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 34; Russ. & R. 363, 421; 9 Ired. (N. C.) 440; 1 Woodb. & M. 221;

What does Aiding and abetting mean in American Law?

The definition of Aiding and abetting in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A familiar crime which consists of helping, counseling, facilitating, strengthening, assisting (and so on-each local statute will have its own list) another in the commission of a crime. If actually present and taking part, one is ordinarily indictable as a principal too, and some of these assisting and furthering activities also can engender accessory status. There may once have been some distinction between “aiding” and “abetting,” but since both are always charged together, whatever distinction there might once have been is gone. Naturally, of course, one convicted of the crime of aiding and abetting must, as with any crime, be proved to have the

requisite scienter, i.e., accidentally or unknowingly helping out a felon is not “aiding and abetting.”

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