WEBB, Justice.
The defendant was convicted as an accessory before the fact of the crimes charged. An accessory before the fact is guilty and punishable as a principal to the felony. N.C.G.S. § 14-5.2 (1993). An accessory before the fact is one who is absent from the scene when the crime is committed but who procures, counsels, commands, or encourages the principal to commit it. State v. Benton,
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