Bowen v. State

Citations

• 25 Fla. 645

Syllabus

<p>1. The guilt of the alleged principal is under the common law essential to the conviction of one indicted as an accessory before the fact.</p> <p>:2. Where an indictment is against three persons charging each of them with murder as principal in the first degree, and the others as accessories before the fact as at common law, and one of them is put on trial and the jury finds him guilty under a count charging him as accessory, and subsequently, but before the entry of the judgment on this verdict, the one charged as principal in the count mentioned is tried and acquitted, judgment cannot be en tered against the one found guilty as an accessory.</p>