A crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a whole community, considered as a community in its social aggregate capacity, as distinguished from a civil injury. Wllkins v. TJ. S., 96 Fed. 837, 37 C. C. A. 588; Pounder v. Ashe, 36 Neb. 564, 54 N. W. 847; State … [Read more...] about CRIME
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CRIMINAL CAPACITY
Being of sufficiently sound mind so that one may be found guilty of committing a crime, such as being of a certain age and having sufficient mental faculties to understand the difference between right and wrong. … [Read more...] about CRIMINAL CAPACITY
CRIME AGAINST NATURE
The offense of buggery or I sodomy. It is a crime not fit to be named; peccatum horrible, inter christianos non nominandum. See Sodomy. … [Read more...] about CRIME AGAINST NATURE
CRIMINAL CASE
A lawsuit that charges a person with the commission of a crime and which may be filed by federal, state or local government. … [Read more...] about CRIMINAL CASE
CRIME IN MORAL TURPITUDE
A crime which shows a moral depravity that would make one unworthy of being within the United States under immigration law. It is conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals. … [Read more...] about CRIME IN MORAL TURPITUDE