If they had not done so, I doubt whether he could be charged with receiving stolen goods, and we might make the charge simply one of aiding these two criminals, and of being so far an accessory after the crime.
"If we could soften it down still further I should, for his father's sake, be glad; but as far as he himself is concerned, I would do nothing to lighten his punishment.

He is about as bad a specimen of human nature as I ever came across.

His father is in bodily fear of him.

I saw the young fellow yesterday, and urged him to enlist, in order to break himself loose from the bad companionship he had fallen into.

His reply was insolent and defiant in the highest degree, and it was then that in his father's name I forbade him the house, and as his father was present he confirmed what I said, and told him that he would not have anything more to do with him.