18.2-462 - Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-462. Concealing or compounding offenses; penalties.

A. Except as provided in subsection B, if any person knowing of thecommission of an offense takes any money or reward, or an engagementtherefor, upon an agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, tocompound or conceal such offense, or not to prosecute therefor, or not togive evidence thereof, he shall, if such offense is a felony, be guilty of aClass 2 misdemeanor; and if such offense is not a felony, unless it ispunishable merely by forfeiture to him, he shall be guilty of a Class 4misdemeanor.

B. Any person, other than the victim of the crime or the husband, wife,parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, or sister, by consanguinityor affinity of the offender, who with actual knowledge of the commission byanother of any felony offense under Chapter 4 (§ 18.2-30 et seq.) of thistitle, willfully conceals, alters, dismembers, or destroys any item ofphysical evidence with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, orhinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, orpunishment of any person regarding such offense is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-303; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2005, c. 408.)