State v. Biddle

Harrington, J.,

charging the jury:

The defendant has been indicted for misprision of felony. Section 4720 of the Revised Code of 1915 provides that:

“Assaults, batteries, nuisances, and all other offenses indictable at common law, and not specially provided for by statute, shall be deemed misdemeanors, ’ ’ etc.

Misprison of felony was an indictable offense at common law, and is, therefore, a misdemeanor under this statute in this State.

At common law, such offense was ‘ ‘the criminal neglect either to prevent a felony from being committed or to bring the offender to justice after its commission,…