Compounding a felony

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Compounding a felony was an offence under common law in England. It consisted of a prosecutor or victim of an offence accepting money or money's worth in exchange for dropping a prosecution for a felony. The offence was abolished in England in 1967, although it might still be prosecuted as perverting the course of justice, and the separate offence of compounding treason survives.

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