If someone was to hear another person conspiring to rob a bank, kidnap someone, kill someone or even plan a terrorist attack and that person does not inform the police about what they have heard then they can be charged with being an accomplice. And depending on how severe or what the crime is the person who never said anything could be sentenced for life or worse they could get the death penalty. This is yet another example of how similar the law works now compared to the Hammurabi code.
Over thousands of years ago the Hammurabi code was engraved into a pillar and even though a lot of development and changes have happened from then to now it is just so difficult to similarities between our present day law and the oldest law code. Our criminal justice system, some of our beliefs or old sayings that we have go all the way back to Amorite. It all just started with the birth of a little baby boy who would someday become King and the greatest ruler in Western