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✔✔Complainant - ✔✔One who INITIATES an action.
✔✔Conspiracy - ✔✔A secret combination of TWO OR MORE persons who plan for the
purpose of committing a crime or any unlawful act.
✔✔Contempt of Court - ✔✔Behavior that IMPUINES the authority of the court or
obstructs the EXECUTION of court orders.
✔✔Constructive Contempt of Court - ✔✔Matters that do no occur in or near the
PRESENCE of the court.
✔✔Direct Contempt of Court - ✔✔In the PRESENCE of the court.
✔✔Contraband - ✔✔Any property which is possessed UNLAWFULLY OR ILLEGALLY
(i.e. narcotics)
✔✔Corporal - ✔✔Relating to the body. Corporal PUNISHMENT is force used against
the body of another.
, ✔✔Corpus - ✔✔The BODY (material substance) upon which a crime has been
committed.
✔✔Corroborating Evidence - ✔✔Evidence supplementary to that already given which
tends to STREGHTHEN or confirm it.
✔✔Court of Record - ✔✔A court OBLIGATED to keep records of the proceeding. The
statutes specific which courts are of record.
✔✔Court Reporter - ✔✔A person who TRANSCRIBES; takes down testimony by
shorthand or stenographically.
✔✔Crime against Nature - ✔✔Unnatural SEXUAL ACT or unnatural sexual intercourse.
The crime of SODOMY is a crime against nature.
✔✔Criminal Insanity - ✔✔Inability to DISTINGUISH right from wrong.
✔✔Cross Examination - ✔✔The questioning of a witness in a trial or the taking of a
deposition, by the party OPPOSSED to the one who produced the witness.
✔✔Dangerous Weapon - ✔✔Includes any gas, liquid or other substance or
instrumentality, which, in the manner used, is calculated or likely to produce DEATH OR
GREAT BODILY HARM.
✔✔Defendant - ✔✔The party AGAINST whom an action or law or inequity is brought;
party denying, opposing, resisting or contesting the action.
✔✔Defraud - ✔✔To WITHHOLD from another what is justly due him, or to DEPRIVE
him of the right by artifice or deception; to cheat.
✔✔Direct Evidence - ✔✔Proof by facts by WITNESSES who saw acts done or heard
words spoken as distinguished from CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
✔✔Direct Examination - ✔✔The first INTERROGATION of a witness by the part on
whose behalf he is called.
✔✔Domicile - ✔✔The place where a person has established PERMENANT residence.
✔✔Double Jeopardy - ✔✔To be prosecuted TWICE for the same offense.
✔✔Due Process - ✔✔Law in its regular course of administration through the courts of
justice.