Parties to offenses
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case State v. Stephenson (1994)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Jereme Dannuel Little (March 2013)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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.
(1) A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense, if the offense is committed by the person's own conduct, by the conduct of another for which the person is criminally responsible, or by both.
(2) Each party to an offense may be charged with commission of the offense.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.