State v. Boyd

Atcheson, J.:

A Johnson County jury convicted Herman Kerwin Boyd IV of robbing a Sonic drive-in restaurant. Because Boyd held up the place with a cohort in crime, he was charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated assault both as a principal and as an aider and abettor. The case was submitted to the jury that way, prompting Boyd to burrow deep into the developing law of alternative means in hopes of finding an escape route on appeal. He primarily argues that aiding and abetting, as a basis for imposing criminal liability, amounts to an alternative means to acting as a principal. We agree.…