Blow v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that transferred intent remains “a viable part” of Virginia law
• finding sufficient evidence of unlawful wounding where appellant rammed police vehicle with his own after leading officers on a high-speed chase
• “The doctrine of transferred intent permits a fact finder to transpose a defendant’s criminal intent to harm an intended victim to another unintended, but harmed, victim.”
• “The doctrine of transferred intent permits a fact finder to transpose a defendant’s criminal intent to harm an intended victim to another unintended, but harmed, victim.”
• “The doctrine of transferred intent permits a fact finder to transpose a defendant’s criminal intent to harm an intended victim to another unintended, but harmed, victim.”
• “[I]t is clear that the [transferred-intent] doctrine is a viable part of our law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).