Bates v. Mikles

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• noting that “the phrase ‘plain legal error’ should not be used to designate the de novo standard of review”
• jury could infer defendant intended to shoot victim from evidence that defendant fired shots in victim’s direction
• Intent may be inferred from all of the circumstances surrounding the assault.
• where indictment charged defendant with aggravated assault for having shot the victim with a gun, a deadly weapon, the state was not required to show that the victim was in reasonable apprehension of a violent injury, as required for an assault under OCGA § 16-5-20 (a) (2
• considering “by shooting at” language in indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).