PART I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 4—ABETMENT AND CONSPIRACY
Section 20—Abetment of Crime and Trial and Punishment of Abettor.
(2) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime is actually committed in pursuance or during the continuance of the abetment, be deemed guilty of that crime.
(3) Every person who abets a crime shall, if the crime is not actually committed, be punishable as follows, that is to say—
(a) where the crime abetted was punishable by death the abettor shall be liable to imprisonment for life ; and
(b) in any other case the abettor shall be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been actually committed in pursuance of the abetment.
(4) An abettor may be tried before, with, or after a person abetted, and although the person abetted is dead or is otherwise not amenable to justice.
(5) An abettor may be tried before, with, or after any other abettor, whether he and such other abettor abetted each other in respect of the crime or not, and whether they abetted the same or different parts of the crime.
(6) An abettor shall have the benefit of any matter of exemption, justification, or extenuation to which he is entitled under this Code, notwithstanding that the person abetted or any other abettor is not entitled to the like benefit.
(7) Every person who, within the jurisdiction of the Courts, abets the doing beyond the jurisdiction of an act which, if done within the jurisdiction, would be a crime, shall be punishable as if he had abetted that crime.
Individual criminal responsibility
Abetting
Joint commission
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