State v. Hess

The state assigns as error the trial court’s ruling sustaining the plea in abatement and ordering the defendant discharged on the counts referred to in the foregoing statement. Sec. 353.06, Stats., provides:

“Every person who shall counsel, hire or otherwise procure any offense to be committed which shall be a felony may be indicted or informed against and convicted as an accessory before the fact either with the principal felon or after the conviction of the principal felon, or he may be indicted or informed against and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon shall or…