Definition of "felo" [felo]

• The Middle Latin form of felon. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mr. Slater was found to be eligible for the "alternative sentencing program," an option offered to defendants with mental health issues, in exchange for pleading guilty to attempted second-degree criminal mischief, a felo ny, and attempted fourth-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor."
• "In denying the right they [the Judiciary] usurp of exclusively explaining the constitution, I go further than you do, if I understand rightly your quotation from the Federalist, of an opinion that 'the Judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government ['] ... if this opinion be sound, then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se [a suicide]."
• "Mind you, the latter achievement has nothing whatever to do with the inherent attractions of a Church which routinely prays for 'the conversion of England': their success has been won on both the back of large numbers of Catholic migrants from Poland and Lithuania and the considerable effort that the Church of England has been putting in on the act of felo de se."