CRM/LAW C144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Federal Housing Administration, Statutory Rape, Appellate Court
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Group criminality: accountability for the acts of others: the relationship between. State v. hayes supreme court of missouri 105 mo. Defendant proposed to hill to join him in the burglary and larceny of a store. Hill was a relative of the storeowner and feigned cooperation in order to get the defendant arrested. On the night that the crime was committed, both arrived together, hill opened a window to let the defendant inside, and closed the window to entrap him. Jury instructions for the defendant were that he would be guilty of burglary if he, with felonious intent, assisted and aided hill to enter the building, notwithstanding. Hill himself may have had no such intent. Appellant argued that the judge erred in giving the jury instructions because that there was no such felonious intent on hill"s behalf because he only opened the window to entrap him.