2015 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS (556-600)
Chapter 562 General Principles of Liability
Section 562.051 Beginning January 1, 2017--Conviction of different degrees of offenses.

MO Rev Stat § 562.051 (2015) What's This?

562.051. Except as otherwise provided, when two or more persons are criminally responsible for an offense which is divided into degrees, each person is guilty of such degree as is compatible with his or her own culpable mental state and with his or her own accountability for an aggravating or mitigating fact or circumstance.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491)

Effective 1-01-17

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