guilty party

So why this desire to paint Martin, rather than the man who shot him, as the guilty party?

Either by making it clear that the suspected women could not have been guilty or, better still, finding the guilty party.

It seems as it might be a good work ter find the guilty party.

I putt my wits in soak, an' soon I spotted the guilty party.

Meanwhile, it is well for men to go back to the beginning of creation to find woman the guilty party.

"If I can only find out where these Stuarts live, I will discover the guilty party," he said to himself.