Notes on 18 U.S.C. § 3 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 18 U.S.C. § 3 : US Code - Notes

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 99-646, Sec. 43,
Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3601; Pub. L. 101-647, title XXXV, Sec.
3502, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4921; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII,
Secs. 330011(h), 330016(2)(A), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2145,
2148.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 551 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
321, Sec. 333, 35 Stat. 1152).
The first paragraph is new. It is based upon authority of Skelly
v. United States (C. C. A. Okl. 1935, 76 F. 2d 483, certiorari
denied, 1935, 55 S. Ct. 914, 295 U.S. 757, 79 L. Ed. 1699), where
the court defined an accessory after the fact as -
one who knowing a felony to have been committed by another,
receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon in order to
hinder the felon's apprehension, trial, or punishment -
and cited Jones' Blackstone, books 3 and 4, page 2204; U.S. v.
Hartwell (Fed. Cas. No. 15,318); Albritton v. State (32 Fla. 358,
13 So. 955); State v. Davis (14 R. I. 281); Schleeter v.
Commonwealth (218 Ky. 72, 290 S. W. 1075). (See also State v.
Potter, 1942, 221 N. C. 153, 19 S. E. 2d 257; Hunter v. State,
1935, 128 Tex. Cr. R. 191, 79 S. W. 2d 855; State v. Wells, 1940,
195 La. 754, 197 So. 419.)
The second paragraph is from section 551 of title 18, U.S.C.,
1940 ed. Here only slight changes were made in phraseology.
AMENDMENTS
1994 - Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(2)(A), inserted
"(notwithstanding section 3571)" before "fined not more than one-
half" in second par.
Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330011(h), amended directory language of
Pub. L. 101-647, Sec. 3502. See 1990 Amendment note below.
1990 - Pub. L. 101-647, as amended by Pub. L. 103-322, Sec.
330011(h), substituted "15 years" for "ten years" in second par.
1986 - Pub. L. 99-646 inserted "life imprisonment or" in second
par.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1994 AMENDMENT
Section 330011(h) of Pub. L. 103-322 provided that the amendment
made by that section is effective as of Nov. 29, 1990.