Commonwealth v. Cross

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that evidence of defendant's \long standing feud\ with victim's relative and verbal statement to victim prior to shooting was sufficient to establish intent
• explaining that evidence of the defendant’s “long standing feud” with the victim and the victim’s brother combined with the defendant’s statement “this is for your brother” before shooting at the victim established a specific intent to kill
• finding specific intent to kill was established where the defendant discharged a firearm at the victim’s vehicle, though the victim was not injured
• conviction for attempted murder sustained where single bullet fired by Cross penetrated car door at height near victim’s stomach and serious injury would have resulted had door not protected victim
• “The offense of attempt with intent to kill is completed by the discharging of a firearm at a -7- J-S31023-24 person with intent to kill, despite the fortuitous circumstances that no injury is suffered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hobson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-05· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Schnabel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Mapp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Lloyd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 6×
• Com. v. Predmore, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-11-27

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-29· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. DelMARMOL
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-11-11· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Clopton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-15· cited 15×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Robinson v. Baldi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-07-13· cited 10×