Indictment and conviction of accessories
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Standefer v. United States (1980)
Most recently applied in State v. Bixby (April 2007)
1962 Code SECTION 16-2; 1952 Code SECTION 16-2; 1942 Code SECTION 1937; 1932 Code SECTION 1937; Cr
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A person who counsels, hires, or otherwise procures a felony to be committed may be indicted and convicted:
(1) as an accessory before the fact either with the principal felon or after his conviction; or
(2) of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, and may be punished as if convicted of being an accessory before the fact.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.