Inchoate acts in the criminal sense are “incomplete offences”. These acts are not complete offences as they are performed in the process of the commission of the final crime.

But what was the crime? A grubby hand stealing a biscuit and the offender biting off a piece?

Or is the crime in progress that of a chocolate chip pacman about to devour a star?

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Inchoate