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What (who) is felony$27815$ - definition

1848 UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ACT OF PARLIAMENT 11 & 12 VIC C. 12

Treason felony; Felony Treason Act 1848; Treason Felony Act

felony murder doctrine

LEGAL DOCTRINE

Felony murder doctrine; Felony Murder Doctrine; Felony murder; Felony-Murder doctrine; Felony-murder rule; Felony murder rule (Model Penal Code)

n. a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone. In a bizarre situation, if one of the holdup men or women is killed, his/her fellow robbers can be charged with murder. See also: murder

Felony murder rule

LEGAL DOCTRINE

Felony murder doctrine; Felony Murder Doctrine; Felony murder; Felony-Murder doctrine; Felony-murder rule; Felony murder rule (Model Penal Code)

The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule

felon

SERIOUS CRIME

Convicted felon; Felonies; Felons; Felonious; Felon; Felonly; Felony crime; Felony (crime); Felony crimes; Felonies in the United States; Felony (United States)

(felons)

A felon is a person who is guilty of committing a felony. (LEGAL)

He's a convicted felon.

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Wikipedia

Treason Felony Act 1848

The Treason Felony Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Parts of the Act are still in force. It is a law which protects the King and the Crown.

The offences in the Act were originally high treason under the Sedition Act 1661 (later the Treason Act 1795), and consequently the penalty was death. However it was found that juries were often reluctant to convict people of capital crimes, and it was thought that the conviction rate might increase if the sentence was reduced to exile to the penal colonies in Australia (the penalty is now life imprisonment). Consequently, in 1848 three categories of treason (all derived from the 1795 Act) were reduced to felonies. (This occurred during a period when the death penalty in the United Kingdom was being abolished for a great many offences.) The Act does not prevent prosecutors from charging somebody with treason instead of treason felony if the same conduct amounts to both offences.

It is treason felony to "compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend":

to deprive the Sovereign of his crown,
to levy war against the Sovereign, or
to "move or stir" any foreigner to invade the United Kingdom or any other country belonging to the Sovereign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason Felony Act 1848