The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 4)
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§ 4. Accessory before the fact
A person who is accessory before the fact by counseling, hiring, or otherwise procuring
an offense to be committed may be informed against or indicted, tried, convicted,
and punished as if he or she were a principal offender in the Criminal Division of
the Superior Court in the unit where the principal might be prosecuted. (Amended 1973, No. 118, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1973; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 94.)