§ 14-7. Accessories after the fact; trial and punishment.
If any person shall become an accessory after the fact to any felony, whether the same be a felony at common law or by virtue of any statute made, or to be made, such person shall be guilty of a crime, and may be indicted and convicted together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted for such crime whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice. Unless a different classification is expressly stated, that person shall be punished for an offense that is two classes lower than the felony the principal felon committed, except that an accessory after the fact to a Class A or Class B1 felony is a Class C felony, an accessory after the fact to a Class B2 felony is a Class D felony, an accessory after the fact to a Class H felony is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and an accessory after the fact to a Class I felony is a Class 2 misdemeanor. The offense of such person may be inquired of, tried, determined and punished by any court which shall have jurisdiction of the principal felon, in the same manner as if the act, by reason whereof such person shall have become an accessory, had been committed at the same place as the principal felony, although such act may have been committed without the limits of the State; and in case the principal felony shall have been committed within the body of any county, and the act by reason whereof any person shall have become accessory shall have been committed within the body of any other county, the offense of such person guilty of a felony as aforesaid may be inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either of said counties: Provided, that no person who shall be once duly tried for such felony shall be again indicted or tried for the same offense. (1797, c. 485, s. 1, P.R.; 1852, c. 58; R.C., c. 34, s. 54; Code, s. 978; Rev., s. 3289; C.S., s. 4177; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14; 1997-443, s. 19.25(p).)
Article 2A.
Habitual Felons.
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1969–2002 · leading case:
State v. Small, 272 S.E.2d 128 (N.C. 1980).
State v. Small, 272 S.E.2d 128 (N.C. 1980).
· cites it 9× “We remand the case for entry of a sentence of life imprisonment, the sentence prescribed in G.S. 14-6 for one who is an accessory before the fact to murder.”
State v. Kemmerlin, 573 S.E.2d 870 (N.C. 2002).
· cites it 3× “We first note that the death sentence for the codefendant in Lowery was vacated on the basis of N.C.G.S. § 14-6, which has since been repealed by our legislature.”
State v. Woods, 297 S.E.2d 574 (N.C. 1982).
· cites it 4× “1 and G.S. 14-6, the statutes which previously had applied to those charged as accessories before the fact of *218 felony.”
State v. Benton, 174 S.E.2d 793 (N.C. 1970).
· cites it 5× “210 (now G.S. 14-6), the law has provided that “any person who shall be convicted as an accessory before the fact in either of the crimes of murder, arson, burglary, or rape shall be imprisoned for life in the State's prison.”
State v. Darroch, 287 S.E.2d 856 (N.C. 1982).
· cites it 2× “§ 14-5 (1969), 1 and was given the mandatory life sentence, G.S. § 14-6 (Cum. Supp. 1979). 2 *200 II Defendant's primary contention on this appeal is that a portion of the statute under which she was convicted, former G.”
Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. Gill, 237 S.E.2d 21 (N.C. 1977).
· cites it 2× “Summers, Uniform Commercial Code § 14-6 at 471 (1972). Certainly the power of a court under G.”
State v. Holmes, 249 S.E.2d 380 (N.C. 1978).
“*57 It is true that G.S. 14-6 provides that any person convicted as an accessory before the fact in either of the degrees of murder shall be imprisoned in the State’s prison for life and that G.”
State v. Wiggins, 192 S.E.2d 680 (N.C. Ct. App. 1972).
“G.S. 14-6. The evidence here shows that defendant was not actually present during the perpetration of the robbery but was in a house ten to fifteen blocks away.”
State v. Benton, 167 S.E.2d 775 (N.C. 1969).
“14-17 provides that a person who is convicted or pleads guilty to murder in the second degree “shall be punished with imprisonment of not less than two nor more than thirty years in the State’s Prison,” G.S. 14-6 provides that a person who is convicted as an accessory before the…”
State v. Buie, 215 S.E.2d 401 (N.C. Ct. App. 1975).
“” G.S. 14-6 provides for the punishment of accessories before the fact.”
George v. Town of Edenton, 230 S.E.2d 695 (N.C. Ct. App. 1977).
· cites it 2× “” § 14-6. The new Zoning Ordinance, adopted 12 August 1975, reenacted the fifteen-day published notice requirement.”
Richardson v. Ross, 310 F. Supp. 134 (E.D.N.C. 1970).
· cites it 3× “N.C.G.S. § 14-6 provides in part for the sentence of life imprisonment for the offense of accessory before the fact to the crime of murder.”
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