Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 18-1601 (2026)
Compounding felony or misdemeanor.
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Compounding felony or misdemeanor.
Every person who, having knowledge of the actual commission of a crime, takes money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement, or promise thereof, upon any agreement or understanding to compound or conceal, such crime, or to abstain from any prosecution thereof, or to withhold any evidence thereof, except in the cases provided for by law, in which crimes may be compromised by leave of court, is punishable as follows:
(1) By imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five (5) years, or in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, where the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life.
(2) By imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding three (3) years, or in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months where the crime was punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for any other term than for life.
(3) By imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), where the crime was a misdemeanor.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2008–2022 · leading case: State v. Armstrong, 195 P.3d 731 (Idaho Ct. App. 2008).
State v. Armstrong, 195 P.3d 731 (Idaho Ct. App. 2008). “The judgment of conviction also miscites the felony injury to children statute as I.C. § 18-1601 instead of I.C. § 18-1501(1).”
State v. Cody Sellers, 387 P.3d 137 (Idaho Ct. App. 2016). “Here, the court imposed concurrent sentences of ten years, with five years determinate, on Counts I, II, and IV for felony injury to a child.”
State v. Nemoede-Maynard (Idaho Ct. App. 2022). “________________________________________________ HUSKEY, Judge Jacob Loren Nemoede-Maynard appeals from his judgment of conviction for compounding a felony, Idaho Code § 18-1601 , challenging the district court’s order denying his motion to dismiss.”
State v. Harley Ray Hernandez (Idaho Ct. App. 2016). “Hernandez pleaded guilty to rape of a female under the age of sixteen and perpetrator is eighteen years of age or older, Idaho Code § 18-1601 (1). The district court imposed a unified sentence of twelve and one-half years, with one and one-half years determinate.”
State v. Summers, 266 P.3d 510 (Idaho Ct. App. 2011). “, I.C. §§ 18-1601(2), compounding felony; 18-2312, aiding and abetting election offenses; and 18-6601, adultery.”
Kevin Ray Piro v. State (Idaho Ct. App. 2013). “________________________________________________ MELANSON, Judge In 2002, Kevin Ray Piro was charged with rape, I.C. § 18-1601, and burglary, I.C. § 18-1401.”
— Idaho Code § 18-1601(1) — 1 case
State v. Cody Sellers, 387 P.3d 137 (Idaho Ct. App. 2016). “Here, the court imposed concurrent sentences of ten years, with five years determinate, on Counts I, II, and IV for felony injury to a child.”
— Idaho Code § 18-1601(2) — 2 cases
State v. Nemoede-Maynard (Idaho Ct. App. 2022). “________________________________________________ HUSKEY, Judge Jacob Loren Nemoede-Maynard appeals from his judgment of conviction for compounding a felony, Idaho Code § 18-1601 , challenging the district court’s order denying his motion to dismiss.”
State v. Summers, 266 P.3d 510 (Idaho Ct. App. 2011). “, I.C. §§ 18-1601(2), compounding felony; 18-2312, aiding and abetting election offenses; and 18-6601, adultery.”
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