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2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses
Article 22 - Interference with Law Enforcement
Section 30-22-6 - Compounding a crime.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 30-22-6 (2017)
30-22-6. Compounding a crime.
Compounding a crime consists of knowingly agreeing to take anything of value upon the agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound or conceal a crime or to abstain from a prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof.
For purposes of this section, a person may be prosecuted and convicted of compounding a crime though the person guilty of the original crime has not been charged, indicted or tried.
Whoever commits compounding a crime is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History: 1953 Comp., 40A-22-6, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, 22-6.
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