Hindering Apprehension or Punishment of Criminal

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Crimes and Offenses
4. Offenses Against Public Administration
5. Escape and Other Offenses Related to Confinement
6. Hindering Apprehension or Punishment of Criminal

1. A person commits the offense of hindering the apprehension or punishment of a criminal when, with intention to hinder the apprehension or punishment of a person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe has committed a felony or to be an escaped inmate or prisoner, he:
   1. Harbors or conceals such person; or
   2. Conceals or destroys evidence of the crime.
2. A person convicted of the offense of hindering apprehension or punishment of a criminal shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

(Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 808; Code 1863, § 4384; Code 1868, § 4422; Code 1873, § 4490; Ga. L. 1876, p. 114, § 1; Code 1882, §§ 4490, 4490a; Penal Code 1895, §§ 321, 322; Penal Code 1910, §§ 326, 327; Code 1933, §§ 26-4601, 26-4602; Code 1933, § 26-2503, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Campus police officer must report commission of felony or presence of escaped convict to appropriate civil authority. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-69.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Harboring Criminals, § 1 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 30A C.J.S., Escape, §§ 31, 32. 67 C.J.S., Obstructing Justice or Governmental Administration, § 35 et seq.

ALR.

- Substitution or attempted substitution of another for one under sentence as a criminal offense, 28 A.L.R. 1381.

When statute of limitations begins to run on charge of obstructing justice or of conspiracy to do so, 77 A.L.R.3d 725.

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