CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONCEALING OR COMPOUNDING OFFENSES; PENALTIES (§ 18.2-462)

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

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

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