
    United States v. Benjamin Ricketts.
    If a man be present, and encourage an assault and battery, he is a principal.
    Assault and BatteRy upon Robert Abercrombie, a constable.
    
      Mr. Mason, for the United States,
    moved the Court to instruct the jury, that if the defendant was present and aiding, abetting, or encouraging the assault and battery, he was a principal.
    
      Mr. Jones, for the defendant,
    contended that it was necessary he should have been present, and aiding, and abetting, and encouraging.
   The Court

(item, con.) gave the instruction. T Hawk. 58; 2 Hawk. 438; 2 M’Nally’s Evidence, 524.  