New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 3/8/1976

State v. Sims

Citations

355 A.2d 695
140 N.J. Super. 164

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reversible error where jury was not instructed that alleged accomplice to attempted murder must possess the same intent as the murderer
improper prosecutor's comment that officer walked up to defendants, pointed them out and looked at them, but defendants did not return his stare or say he was lying
\It is clear in New Jersey that a defendant can be held as an aider or abettor only if he [or she] had the same criminal intent that must be possessed by the principal wrongdoer.\
where the charge fails to instruct the jury that the aider or abettor must possess the same intent as the perpetrator, it is reversibly defective since the jury must be told it \must find a community of purpose between the actual perpetrator and the aider and abettor\

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Judges: Judges Lynch, Larner and Horn

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