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CRIMINAL CODE.

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CHAPTER 12.

GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

Section 1. Every person who shall be aiding in the commission of any offense which shall be a felony, or who shall be accessory thereto before the fact, by counseling, hiring, or otherwise procuring such felony to be committed, shall be punished in the same manner as is, or shall be prescribed for the punishment of the principal felon.

Sec. 2. Every person who shall counsel, hire, or otherwise procure any offense to be committed which shall be a felony, may be indicted and committed as an accessory before the fact, either with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon; or he may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice, and in the last mentioned ease may be punished in the same manner as if convicted of being an accessory before the fact.

Sec. 3. Any person guilty of the offense in the preceding section, may be indicted, tried and punished in the same court and in the same county where the principal felon might be indicted and tried, although the offense of counseling, hiring, abetting, or procuring the commission of such felony, may have been committed elsewhere, either within or without the limits of this territory.

Sec. 4. Every person not standing in the relation of husband or wife, parent or child, by consanguinity or affinity to the offender, who after the commission of any felony, shall harbor, conceal, maintain or assist any principal felon or acces-