Legal Definition and Related Resources of Red Handed

With the marks of crime fresh on him.

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Grammar

This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Red-handed

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1781, earlier red-hand (early 15c.), originally in Scottish legal writing, from red (adj.1) + -handed; presumably from the image of a murderer with hands still stained with blood.