Cortner v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although the defendant never actually possessed the gun used in the robberies, he acted in concert with the co-defendant who did display the weapon
• holding unarmed co-defendant guilty for “use” of a firearm during the commission of robbery and abduction
• unarmed defendant and three others robbed victim after armed codefendant shot victim; Court held defendant vicariously responsible as principal in second degree because defendant shared common purpose of armed assailant to rob victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).