A person commits the offense of refusal to identify as a witness
if, knowing he/she has witnessed any portion of a crime, or of any
other incident resulting in physical injury or substantial property
damage, upon demand by a Law Enforcement Officer engaged in the performance
of his/her official duties, he/she refuses to report or gives a false
report of his/her name and present address to such officer.
A person commits the offense of disturbing a judicial proceeding
if, with purpose to intimidate a judge, attorney, juror, party or
witness and thereby to influence a judicial proceeding, he/she disrupts
or disturbs a judicial proceeding by participating in an assembly
and calling aloud, shouting, or holding or displaying a placard or
sign containing written or printed matter concerning the conduct of
the judicial proceeding or the character of a judge, attorney, juror,
party or witness engaged in such proceeding, or calling for or demanding
any specified action or determination by such judge, attorney, juror,
party or witness in connection with such proceeding.
A person commits the offense of improper communication if he/she
communicates, directly or indirectly, with any juror, special master,
referee or arbitrator in a judicial proceeding, other than as part
of the proceedings in a case, for the purpose of influencing the official
action of such person.
A person commits the offense of escape from custody or attempted
escape from custody if, while being held in custody after arrest for
any crime or offense, he/she escapes or attempts to escape from custody.
[CC 1992 §220.170; R.O. 1979 §9.000]
Any person who shall aid or assist, abet, counsel, hire or by
any means procure any person to commit a violation of this Code shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished in the same manner as for committing
the offense so aided, assisted, abetted, counseled, hired or procured
to be committed.
[CC 1992 §220.180; R.O. 1979 §9.010]
A. A person
is guilty of attempt to commit an offense when, with the purpose of
committing the offense, he/she does any act which is a substantial
step towards the commission of the offense.
A "substantial step" is conduct which is strongly
corroborative of the firmness of the actor's purpose to complete the
commission of the offense.
B. It
is no defense to a prosecution under this Section that the offense
attempted was, under the actual attendant circumstances, factually
or legally impossible of commission, if such offense could have been
committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed
them to be.
C. A person
convicted of attempt shall be punished by a fine not to exceed twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty
(30) days, or both.
[CC 1992 §220.190; R.O. 1979 §9.020]
A. A person
is guilty of conspiracy with another person or persons to commit an
offense if, with the purpose of promoting or facilitating its commission,
he/she agrees with such other person or persons that they or one (1)
or more of them will engage in conduct which constitutes such offense.
B. If
a person guilty of conspiracy knows that a person with whom he/she
conspires to commit an offense has conspired with another person or
persons to commit the same offense, he/she is guilty of conspiring
with such other person or persons to commit such offense, whether
or not he/she knows their identity.
C. If
a person conspires to commit a number of offenses, he/she is guilty
of only one (1) conspiracy so long as such multiple offenses are the
object of the same agreement.
D. No
person may be convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense unless
an overt act in pursuance of such conspiracy is alleged and proved
to have been done by him/her or by a person with whom he/she conspired.
E. For
the purpose of time limitations on prosecutions:
1. "Conspiracy" is a continuing course of conduct which
terminates when the offense or offenses which are its object are committed
or the agreement that they be committed is abandoned by the defendant
and by those with whom he/she conspired.
2. If an individual abandons the agreement, the conspiracy is terminated
as to him/her only if he/she advises those with whom he/she has conspired
of his/her abandonment or he/she informs the law enforcement authorities
of the existence of the conspiracy and of his/her participation in
it.
F. A person
may not be charged, convicted or sentenced on the basis of the same
course of conduct of both the actual commission of an offense and
a conspiracy to commit that offense.
G. A person
convicted of a conspiracy shall be punished under the terms of the
general punishment of these ordinances.
[CC 1992 §220.230; Ord. No. 345 §1, 1-9-1980]
A. It
shall be unlawful for any person to violate his/her written promise
to appear or for any person to fail to appear in response to any summons
of the Municipal Court, regardless of the disposition of the charge
for which such promise or summons was originally issued.
B. It
shall be unlawful for any person to fail to pay the fine or court
costs or any part thereof he/she was ordered to pay by the Municipal
Court as a result of a conviction of any violation of the Revised
Ordinances of Platte City within any period of time which may be allowed
for the payment of such fine by the court or for any person to fail
or refuse to perform any work which they were sentenced to perform
by the Municipal Court.