40.307. Mutiny--sedition--attempted mutiny or sedition--failure to suppress or inform--offenses, court-martial. - Missouri Statutes

Mutiny--sedition--attempted mutiny or sedition--failure to suppressor inform--offenses, court-martial.

40.307. 1. Any person subject to sections 40.005 to 40.490who:

(1) With intent to usurp or override lawful militaryauthority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obeyorders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence ordisturbance is guilty of mutiny;

(2) With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction oflawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any otherperson, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against thatauthority is guilty of sedition;

(3) Fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutinyor sedition being committed in the person's presence, or fails totake all reasonable means to inform his superior commissionedofficer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which theperson knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guiltyof a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.

2. A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny,sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or seditionshall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(L. 1984 H.B. 1035 § 95)