State v. Mitchell

CLARK, Judge.

The defendant assigns as error the following portion of the Judge’s charge:

“ [F] or a person to be guilty of a crime, it is not necessary that he, himself do all the acts necessary to constitute a crime.

That two or more persons acting together with a common purpose to commit a crime, and in this case, a crime of robbery with a dangerous weapon, each of them is held responsible for the acts of the others condoning in the commission of a crime.”

The defendant contends that “condone” means silent approval and that the court misstated the law of “aiding and abetting.”

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