Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

participes criminis

See ACCESSORY. "Even in felonies but little practical importance now attaches to the distinctions between the first three of these four classes of accomplices' - a term which the law applies to all the participes criminis, whatever their degree of complicity' in the offence, though popular use generally limits it to those who take only a minor part. For the maximum punishment prescribed for any given crime is the same in the case of all three classes." J.W. Cecil Turner, Kenny's Outlines of Crimina