Case Name: Curtiss Clarendon VAUGHN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1967-05-18
Citations: 198 So. 2d 858
Docket Number: No. 1-196
Parties: Curtiss Clarendon VAUGHN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: WIGGINTON, Acting C. J., and JOHNSON and SPECTOR, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 198
Pages: 858–858

Head Matter:
Curtiss Clarendon VAUGHN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 1-196.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.
May 18, 1967.
Mahon & Mahon, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was found guilty of the charge of conspiracy to violate Section 562.23, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. The evidence supports the verdict. The question here'is as to the sufficiency of the court's instruction to the jury as to the elements of the crime of conspiracy. The court instructed the jury in substance that in order to convict of conspiracy, the defendant must have actively and intentionally participated in the "furtherance" of the conspiracy or common design as a whole. Appellant having furnished money for gas for cooking the mash and having furnished sugar and money for sugar was sufficient to show that appellant knowingly and actively participated in the furtherance of the conspiracy. Use of the word "furtherance" of the conspiracy is practically synonymous with the words of the statute "to effect the object of the conspiracy."
Finding no error in the instructions, the judgment appealed is affirmed.
WIGGINTON, Acting C. J., and JOHNSON and SPECTOR, JJ., concur.