What is the test for an accomplice to murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rowley, E063254 (Cal. App. 2016):
An accomplice's knowledge of the perpetrator's criminal purpose must exist at the time the accomplice acts to facilitate or encourage the crime. (People v. Williams (1997) 16 Cal.4th 635, 676.) To be guilty as an accomplice to first degree murder, one must
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