Section 127: Compounding felonies

Any person who asks, receives, or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain
any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any
agreement or understanding that he will compound or conceal a felony, or will abstain
from, discontinue, or delay a prosecution for a felony, or will withhold any evidence
thereof, is guilty of an offence.
If the felony is such that a person convicted of it is liable to be sentenced to death or
imprisonment for life, the offender is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment
for seven years.
In any other case the offender is liable to imprisonment for three years. The offender
cannot be arrested without warrant.