Georgia

The Criminal Code of Georgia

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. CRIME

CHAPTER VII. PERPETRATION AND COMPLICITY

Article 23. Complicity
Complicity in the crime shall mean joint participation of two or more persons in the perpetration of the crime.

Article 24. Types of Complicity
1. The organizer shall be the one who staged the crime or supervised its perpetration as well as the one who established the organized group or supervised it.
2. The instigator shall be the one who persuaded the other person into committing the offence.
3. The accomplice shall be the one who helped the perpetration of crime.
Article 25. Liability of Perpetrator and Accomplice
1. Criminal liability shall be imposed upon the perpetrator and accomplice only for their own fault on the basis of joint illegal action, in consideration of the character and quality of the part that each of them played in the wrongdoing.
2. Criminal liability of the co-perpetrator shall be determined in compliance with the relevant article of this Code, without giving reference to this article.
3. Criminal liability of the organizer, instigator and accomplice shall be determined under the relevant article of this Code, by giving reference to this article except for the case when they were concurrently the co-perpetrators of the crime.
4. If the action of the perpetrator or accomplice involves the sign typical for illegal action, this sign shall give rise to the liability of the other perpetrator or accomplice whose action did not bear this sign if the latter perpetrator or accomplice was aware of this sign.
5. The personal sign, which is typical for the wrongdoing or the personality of one of the perpetrator or accomplice, shall be charged against the perpetrator or accomplice whom this sign is typical for.
6. The person shall be subject to criminal liability as an organizer, instigator or accomplice for participation in the crime the perpetrator whereof may be a special subject of the relevant crime prescribed by this Code.
7. If the perpetrator has not completed the crime, the accomplice shall be subject to criminal liability for the preparation of or complicity in the attempted crime. Criminal liability for the preparation of the crime shall be imposed upon the one who failed, due to circumstances beyond control, to persuade other person into wrongdoing.

Keywords

Joint commission



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