PROSECUTOR

In practice. He wbo prosecutes another tor a crime in the name ot the government. · -Private prosecutor, One who 11ets in i not i on the machinery of criminal justice against a person whom he suspects or believes to be guilty of a crime, by laying an accusation before the proper authorities, and who is not himself an officer of justice. See Heacock v. State, 13 Tex. App. 129; State v. Mill a in, 3 Nev. 425.-Prosecutor of the pleas. This name is given, i11 New Jersey, to the county officer who is charged with the prosecution of criminal actions corresponding to the "district attorney"· or;zC(>UD• ty attorney" in other states.-Public prosecutor..An officer of government (such as a state's attorney or district attorney) whose function is the prosecution of criminal actions, or suits partaking of the nature of criminal actions. [s. 965]