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Parties to Crime. § 6823. Public ministers exempt. Embassadors and other public ministers from foreign governments accredited to the president or the government of the United States, and recognized by it according to the laws of the United States, with their secretaries, messengers, families and servants are not liable to punishment in this state.

§ 6824. Parties to crime classified. The parties to crime are classified as:

1. Principals; and,

2. Accessories.

§ 6825. Principals, who are. All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it is a felony or a misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or not being present, have advised and encouraged its commission, and all persons counseling, advising or encouraging children under the age of fourteen years, lunatics or idiots, to commit any crime, or who by fraud, contrivance or force, occasion the drunkenness of another for the purpose of causing him to commit any crime, or who by threats, menaces, command or coercion, compel another to commit any crime, are principals in any crime so committed.

§ 6826. Accessories, who are. All persons who, after the commission of any felony, conceal or aid the offender, with knowledge that he has committed a felony, and with intent that he may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, are accessories.

'''§ 6827. Misdemeanors. No accessories.''' In misdemeanor there are no accessories.

§ 6828. Accessories, how punished. Except in cases when a different punishment is prescribed by law, an accessory to a felony is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.