State v. MADAM (X)

The defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial judge to define “aider and abettor” in his charge to the jury.

The only instruction upon the law applicable to aiding and abetting in the commission of a crime was as follows:

“Now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is the law that where a crime is committed by one person, aided and abetted by another who is present at the time of the commission of the crime, then the second person, the aider and abettor, is as guilty of the crime as the principal; that’s the theory upon which the State relies in this case.”

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