McClain v. State

Appellant McClain was charged under two separate indictments with being an accessory after the fact to the felonies of murder and armed robbery. Specifically, the indictments charged that Edward Powers, Thomas McCoy, Albert Matthews, and Dennis Wilson murdered and robbed Joseph Pécora on November 2, 1967 and that appellant “well knowing * * * [the principals had committed the offenses] afterwards * * * was accessory thereto, and he * * * did then and there feloniously receive, harbor, comfort, counsel, maintain and assist [the said felons]

At a court trial held after the convictions of Powers,…