Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

compounding a crime

The offense of either agreeing not to prosecute a crime that one knows has been committed or agreeing to hamper the prosecution. - Also termed theft-bote."If a prosecuting attorney should accept money from another to induce the officer to prevent the finding of an indictment against that person this would be compounding a crime if the officer knew the other was guilty of an offense, but would be bribery whether he had such knowledge or not." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 539 (3d ed. 1982).