Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary for any other term than for life, who shall take any money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, to compound or conceal any such crime, or to abstain from any prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding three years, or in the county jail not exceeding six months.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 7(18); 1857, ch. 64, art. 41; 1871, § 2518; 1880, § 2732; 1892, § 988; 1906, § 1064; Hemingway's 1917, § 792; 1930, § 808; 1942, § 2034.
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