perpetrator of the crime or shared the perpetrator’s intent to commit the crime.”); Bass v. Commonwealth, 31 Va. App. 373, 389, 523 S.E.2d 534 (2000) (citations omitted) (“[T]he accused’s mere presence and consent to the crime will not suffice to convict as an accomplice.”); McGill v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 728, 733, 485 S.E.2d 173 (1997) (citation omitted) (“To hold an accused accountable as a principal in the second degree, the Commonwealth must show that the accused was present, aiding and abetting, and intended his or her words, gestures, signals, or actions to in some way encourage, advise, urge, or in some way help the person committing the crime to commit it.”); Hyde v. Commonwealth, 217 Va. 950, 956, 234 S.E.2d 74 (1977) (citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted) (<HOLDING>). Finally, the Court would note this salient
holding that where a patient is in possession of his faculties and in such physical health as to be able to consult about his condition and where no emergency exists making it impracticable to confer with him his consent is a prerequisite to a surgical operation by his physician holding that to show cause to overcome procedural default a defendant must demonstrate that something prevented him from raising his claims on direct appeal emphasis added holding that a police officer may order an individual out of his car and frisk him for weapons if there is a reasonable belief that the individual is armed and dangerous holding that to find an individual to be an aider and abettor there must be something done or said by him showing a his consent to the felonious purpose and b his contribution to its execution holding that an issue must be presented to the lower court and the specific legal argument or ground to be argued on appeal must be part of that presentation if it is to be considered preserved