USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 15 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Chapter : CHAPTER 195 - PARTIES TO CRIMES
Parties to
crimes are classified as:
1. Principals; and
2. Accessories.
[1911 C&P § 8; RL § 6273; NCL § 9957]
Every person concerned in the commission
of a felony, gross misdemeanor or misdemeanor, whether he directly
commits the act constituting the offense, or aids or abets in its
commission, and whether present or absent; and every person who, directly
or indirectly, counsels, encourages, hires, commands, induces or
otherwise procures another to commit a felony, gross misdemeanor or
misdemeanor is a principal, and shall be proceeded against and punished
as such. The fact that the person aided, abetted, counseled, encouraged,
hired, commanded, induced or procured, could not or did not entertain a
criminal intent shall not be a defense to any person aiding, abetting,
counseling, encouraging, hiring, commanding, inducing or procuring him.
[1911 C&P § 9; RL § 6274; NCL § 9958]
Every person not standing in the
relation of husband or wife, brother or sister, parent or grandparent,
child or grandchild, to the offender, who:
1. After the commission of a felony harbors, conceals or aids such
offender with intent that he may avoid or escape from arrest, trial,
conviction or punishment, having knowledge that such offender has
committed a felony or is liable to arrest, is an accessory to the felony.
2. After the commission of a gross misdemeanor harbors, conceals
or aids such offender with intent that he may avoid or escape from
arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, having knowledge that such
offender has committed a gross misdemeanor or is liable to arrest, is an
accessory to the gross misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 10; RL § 6275; NCL § 9959]—(NRS A 1959, 294)
1. An accessory to a felony may be indicted, tried and convicted
either in the county where he became an accessory, or where the principal
felony was committed, whether the principal offender has or has not been
convicted, or is or is not amenable to justice, or has been pardoned or
otherwise discharged after conviction. Except where a different
punishment is specially provided by law, the accessory is guilty of a
category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 .
2. An accessory to a gross misdemeanor may be indicted, tried and
convicted in the manner provided for an accessory to a felony and, except
where a different punishment is specially provided by law, shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 30 days nor
more than 6 months, or by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than
$500, or by both fine and imprisonment.
[1911 C&P § 11; RL § 6276; NCL § 9960]—(NRS A 1959, 294; 1995, 1169)