N.M. Stat. § 30-22-6
Current through 2024, ch. 69
Compounding a crime consists of knowingly agreeing to take anything of value upon the agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound or conceal a crime or to abstain from a prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof.
For purposes of this section, a person may be prosecuted and convicted of compounding a crime though the person guilty of the original crime has not been charged, indicted or tried.
Whoever commits compounding a crime is guilty of a misdemeanor.
NMS § 30-22-6