Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER I - DEFINING CRITERIA OF PUNISHMENT

Article 11
(Subjective attribution)
Only a deed committed with wrongful intent or, in those cases expressly provided for in law, with negligence, shall be punishable.

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER I - DEFINING CRITERIA OF PUNISHMENT

Article 13
(Wrongful intent)

1. Anyone who carries out a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime and does so with the intention of carrying it out shall be deemed to be acting with wrongful intent.

2. Anyone who carries out a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime, such deed being a necessary consequence of his actions, shall be deemed to be acting with wrongful intent.

3. When a deed that corresponds to the description of a standard type of crime is carried out as a possible consequence of the perpetrator's actions, wrongful intent shall be deemed to exist if the perpetrator's actions were consistent with the carrying out of that deed.

Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE

VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS

CHAPTER II - CHARACTERISTICS OF A PUNISHABLE DEED

Article 27
(Complicity)
1. Anyone who, with wrongful intent and in circumstances not covered in the preceding articles, provides material or moral support, with acts carried out prior to or simultaneous with the carrying out of a wrongful deed by someone else, is an accomplice.

2.An accomplice shall be subject to the same penalties as an author, and they may be freely lessened in accordance with the terms and limits applicable to an attempted offence.