ACCESORY FOR THE FACT 1
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ACCESORY FOR THE FACT 2
Accessory for the Fact
1. Elements of accessory after the fact
Evidence is sufficient to support an ultimate finding that the reasonable findings and
inferences granted by the evidence eliminate every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. After the
fact, in this case, the accessory elements are that Mr. Duke gave a lift to Mr. Chrism,
impersonated himself as a female, and drove with Mr. Duke. Chrism did not inform Duke that he
was a male and not a female while droving to Chrism’s uncle home.
The term accessory is a person who had witnessed a crime, and he has sufficient evidence
that a certain individual had committed the crime. The witness goes ahead to help the person to
escape from being arrested or punished (Erwig, 2017). In this case, Duke and Chrism are the
