NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 811

SENATE BILL 670

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT CONVICTION AS ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT ON AN INDICTMENT CHARGING THE PRINCIPAL FELONY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  General Statutes Chapter 14 is amended by adding the following section:

"§ 14-5.1.  Indictment on principal felony does not charge accessory before the fact. — Any person who shall be charged with the principal felony in an indictment, presentment or information may not be convicted as accessory before the fact to the principal felony on the same indictment, presentment or information. Accessory before the fact is not a lesser included offense of the principal felony."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1979.