CRONE, J.
This is a case of a drug deal gone awry. The defendant and another man attempted to buy drugs, and during the transaction, one of the sellers was shot to death. The State charged the defendant with murder, felony murder, and dealing in a controlled substance. The jury found the defendant not guilty of murder, but guilty of felony murder and dealing.
On appeal, the defendant Steven Hyche claims that he was merely attempting to purchase ecstasy, not to deal in it. As such, he claims that he does not fall within the legislature’s definition of a person who has committed dealing and therefore could not have been guilty of felony murder. We agree and vacate his convictions.
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Hyche asserts that he acted only as a purchaser and that, as such, the evidence is insufficient to support the jury’s determination that he was dealing. Therefore, he could not, by definition, be guilty of felony murder. The State asks us to construe the terms “deliver” or “finance the delivery of” drugs to include Hyche’s actions in attempting to purchase the ecstasy. . . . .
Indiana Code Section 35-48-1-11 defines “delivery” as “(1) an actual or constructive transfer from one (1) person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship; or (2) the organizing or supervising of an activity described in subdivision (1).” (Emphasis added.) Specifically, the State contends that because Hyche initiated the transaction by calling Smith-Kelsey, he organized the transfer of the drugs; as such, it argues that he engaged in a delivery under Indiana Code Section 35-48-4-2(a)(1)(C). We disagree.
Black’s Law Dictionary defines “delivery” as “the giving or yielding possession or control of something to another.” BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY 461 (8th ed. 2004) (emphasis added). Here, Hyche merely attempted to purchase ecstasy. He acted as the transferee, not the transferor. The fact that he called another person to request drugs no more makes him a dealer in ecstasy than it would make a customer who calls the florist a dealer in flowers. The State’s cited cases are factually distinguishable because each involved a defendant involved on the distribution side of the transaction. See Smalley v. State, 732 N.E.2d 1231, 1236 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000) (holding evidence sufficient to support defendant’s dealing conviction where defendant organized purchase and delivery of cocaine from dealer to third party); see also Carter v. State, 471 N.E.2d 1111, 1114 (Ind. 1984) (holding evidence sufficient to support defendant’s dealing conviction where defendant arranged and brought undercover officer/purchaser to purchase site and told undercover officers to let him know when they needed more drugs and he would obtain them). The record is devoid of any evidence that Hyche was acting on the distribution side. Thus, he cannot be said to have organized the delivery of ecstasy under the statute.
The State also asserts that Hyche financed the delivery of the drugs by agreeing to pay $30.00 for them. Financing is “the act or process of raising or providing funds.” BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY at 663. The term is commonly construed as applying to one who acts as a creditor or an investor and not one who merely acts as a purchaser. See THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY 504 (2nd college ed. 1991) (defining “financing” as “supply[ing] funds to” or “furnish[ing] credit to” and “finance” as pertaining to “management of money, banking, investment, or credit”). As support for its argument that Hyche acted as a financier, the State cites only one Texas case, in which the defendant admittedly acted as a broker between the undercover officer/seller and third-party purchasers. Diaz v. State, 902 S.W.2d 149 (Tex. Ct. App. 1995). In Diaz, the defendant challenged his conviction for illegal investment of funds to further the commission of the offense of possession of cocaine. Id. at 150. There, the Court noted that the terms “finance” and “invest” included the raising and furnishing of funds and held the evidence sufficient to sustain defendant’s conviction even though the funds he supplied were not his personal funds. Id. at 151.
Here, Hyche was charged with dealing in ecstasy, not investing funds to further the offense of possession of it. He was not charged with possession with intent to deliver, and the record is devoid of evidence of any other persons to whom he intended to deliver the drugs. Thus, Diaz is factually distinguishable. Moreover, there is no evidence that Hyche furnished any funds in furtherance of Rollins’s or Smith-Kelsey’s drug dealing activities. Instead, he acted merely as a purchaser and not as a creditor or an investor. As such, he could no more be deemed to be financing the delivery of ecstasy than a grocery shopper could be deemed to be financing the supermarket’s inventory. Because the record is devoid of any evidence that Hyche was acting in any capacity other than that of purchaser, it is insufficient to support a dealing conviction and therefore a felony murder conviction based thereon.
Finally, the State argues that the evidence is sufficient to support Hyche’s guilt as Rollins’s accomplice in dealing ecstasy. See Ind. Code § 35-41-2-4 (stating that “[a] person who knowingly or intentionally aids, induces, or causes another person to commit an offense commits that offense, even if the other person: (1) has not been prosecuted for the offense; (2) has not been convicted of the offense; or (3) has been acquitted of the offense”). Accomplice liability is not a separate offense; rather, it is merely a separate basis of liability for the offense charged. Suggs v. State, 883 N.E.2d 1188, 1192 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008).
In determining whether there was sufficient evidence for purposes of accomplice liability, we consider such factors as: (1) presence at the scene of the crime; (2) companionship with another at the scene of the crime; (3) failure to oppose commission of crime; and (4) course of conduct before, during, and after occurrence of crime.
Bruno v. State, 774 N.E.2d 880, 882 (Ind. 2002).
Here, Hyche merely sought to purchase ecstasy from Rollins. Although both were present at the scene of the crime, they were not companions. Indeed, given the ensuing shootings, the two could more accurately be described as adversaries. The cases cited by the State involve defendants who were active in brokering the deals between the dealers and third parties and were acting on the distribution side of the transactions. Such is not the case here. [Footnote omitted.]
In sum, we agree with Hyche that the State’s interpretation of the dealing statute would “completely blur the distinction between one who possesses a drug and one who distributes it.” . . . Hyche acted only as a purchaser of ecstasy, not as a dealer. To find that his offer to purchase the drug somehow amounts to organizing, financing, or even inducing its delivery, defies logic and cannot reasonably reflect the intent of the General Assembly in enacting these statutes. As such, we hold that the evidence is insufficient to support his dealing conviction. Because his felony murder conviction was based on the commission of the underlying offense of dealing, it too cannot stand. Thus, we vacate both convictions.
FRIEDLANDER, J, and BARNES, J., concur.