State v. Jones

Whether a person, when indicted and tried for murder, may be found guilty as an accessory before the fact to the crime of murder, remains in doubt. S. v. Dewer, 65 N.C. 572, and S. v. Green, 119 N.C. 899, 26 S.E. 112, clearly say, “No.” Under rather unusual factual situations, the decisions in Dewer and Green were overruled or the authority thereof somewhat impaired in S. v. Bryson, 173 N.C. 803, 92 S.E. 698, and in S. v. Simons, 179 N.C. 700, 103 S.E. 5. If and when an appropriate factual situation is presented, I think this Court should reconsider and clarify this subject.

G.S. 14-5 defines…