2014 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 11 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 11-1 - General Provisions
Section 11-1-3 - Liability for aiding, abetting, counseling, hiring, or commanding offenses.

RI Gen L § 11-1-3 (2014) What's This?

§ 11-1-3 Liability for aiding, abetting, counseling, hiring, or commanding offenses. – Every person who shall aid, assist, abet, counsel, hire, command, or procure another to commit any crime or offense, shall be proceeded against as principal or as an accessory before the fact, according to the nature of the offense committed, and upon conviction shall suffer the like punishment as the principal offender is subject to by this title.

History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 284, § 2; C.P.A. 1905, § 1178; G.L. 1909, ch. 350, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 402, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 623, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 11-1-3.)

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