Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 45-8-105 - Criminal incitement(1) "Criminal incitement" means the advocacy of crime, malicious damage or injury to property, or violence.(2) A person commits the offense of criminal incitement if the person purposely or knowingly advocates the commission of a criminal offense and the advocacy is: (a) directed to inciting or producing that imminent unlawful, criminal action; and(b) likely to incite or produce that unlawful, criminal action.(3) For purposes of this section, "imminent" means immediate in time, impending, or on the verge of happening.(4) A person convicted of the offense of criminal incitement shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term not to exceed 10 years.En. 94-7-503 by Sec. 1, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 29, Ch. 359, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 94-7-503; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 350, L. 1999.