{"data":{"id":"us-vt/13-v.s.a.-4","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"13 V.S.A. § 4","heading":"Accessory before the fact","body":"A person who is accessory before the fact by counseling, hiring, or otherwise procuring an offense to be committed may be informed against or indicted, tried, convicted, and punished as if he or she were a principal offender in the Criminal Division of the Superior Court in the unit where the principal might be prosecuted.","path":["Title 13: Crimes and Criminal Procedure","Chapter 001: General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/13/001/00004","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:04:27Z","sha256":"d559618be55b2856a0306dc8713200f0a98f89c821eacd2a93f7260fc6d3c792","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/13-v.s.a.-3","next":"us-vt/13-v.s.a.-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}