AID AND COMFORT
aid and comfort.Help given by someone to a national enemy in such a way that the help
amounts to treason. [Cases: Treason 6. C.J.S. Treason § 8.]
“Aid and comfort may be given in various ways, such as buying a vessel and fitting it for
service in aid of the enemy, delivering prisoners and deserters to the enemy, or selling critical
materials with knowledge of the fact that the purchaser buys them to use in the manufacture of
gunpowder for the enemy, or otherwise to aid him in his prosecution of the war. And the courts
have given short shrift to the claim that such a sale was not intended to aid the enemy but only to
make a profit.” Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 502 (3d ed. 1982).
aid and comfort.Help given by someone to a national enemy in such a way that the help
amounts to treason. [Cases: Treason 6. C.J.S. Treason § 8.]
“Aid and comfort may be given in various ways, such as buying a vessel and fitting it for
service in aid of the enemy, delivering prisoners and deserters to the enemy, or selling critical
materials with knowledge of the fact that the purchaser buys them to use in the manufacture of
gunpowder for the enemy, or otherwise to aid him in his prosecution of the war. And the courts
have given short shrift to the claim that such a sale was not intended to aid the enemy but only to
make a profit.” Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 502 (3d ed. 1982). [Blacks Law 8th]