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accomplice 1. The English word accomplice and the Spanish word complice, though derived from the same Latin root, are not identical in meaning. The former if defined by Bouvler as one who is concerned in the commission of a crime, all participes criminis whether they are considered in strict legal propriety as principals in the first or second degree or merely as accessories before or after the fact. But the word complice as defined in the Spanish Penal Code applies to one not included in Art. 13, i.e. a principal co-operator in the execution of the act by previous or simultaneous acts. By this definition complice would mean accessory before the fact. (22 CJS 1335). |