In Re the Welfare of Wilson

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• aiding and abetting requires that one associate oneself with the undertaking, participate in it as something one desires to bring about, and seek by one's action to make it succeed
• “[I]t is the encouragement plus the intent of the bystander to encourage that constitutes abetting.”
• no complicity where defendant was present but did not participate in pulling rope across highway as cars approached
• “Mere knowledge or physical presence at the scene of a crime neither constitutes a crime nor will it support a charge of aiding and abetting a crime.”
• “[I]t is the intent to facilitate another in the commission of a crime by providing assistance through his presence or his act that makes the accomplice criminally liable”
• “[I]t is the encouragement plus the intent of the bystander to encourage 2 State statutes and the state court decisions interpreting them are both “authoritative sources of state law.” Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243, 2256 (2016

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