The Devil's Dictionary: Accomplice

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ACCIDENT
ACCORD

ACCOMPLICE

-n.

One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

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