"If Kent did not shoot Rowe who did?"
"but the British were out for blood and indicted Kent with the same charge that they were charging the Dublin rebels with: "Did an act to wit did take part in an armed rebellion and in the waging of war against His Majesty the King, such act being of such a nature as to be calculated to be prejudicial to the Defence to the Realm and being done with the intention and for the purpose of assisting the enemy.""
This is how Kent was tried - you've been given the link
Jim Carroll