Article 14 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE ONE. Criminal Responsibility · CHAPTER III. Persons responsible for crimes
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
If several offenders take part in the carrying out of a determined crime and one of them commits a different crime, without prior agreement with the others, all shall be responsible for the commission of the new crime, unless the following requirements concur:
I.- That the new crime does not serve as an adequate means to commit the principal one;
II.- That the former is not a necessary or natural consequence of the latter, or of the agreed means;
III.- That they did not know beforehand that the new crime was going to be committed, and
IV.- That they were not present at the execution of the new crime, or that, having been present, they did everything on their part to prevent it.