Britain, Samantha Amity

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[m]anslaughter is a result-oriented offense: the mental state must relate to the results of the defendant’s actions”
• acknowledging that Bowen held that “a court of appeals may reform a judgment to a lesser-included offense,” but stating that this Court has never held “that the court of appeals must do so”
• acknowledging that Bowen held that “a court of appeals may reform a judgment to a lesser-included offense,” but stating that this Court has never held “that the court of appeals must do so”
• stating that, under legal sufficiency standard, “evidence may be legally insufficient when the record contains either no evidence of an essential element, merely a modicum of evidence of one element, or if it conclusively establishes a reasonable doubt.”
• “Manslaughter is a result-oriented offense; the mental state must relate to the results of the defendant’s actions.”
• “As we stated in Bowen, the fact finder’s determination should not be usurped if the evidence is legally sufficient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).