Commonwealth v. Donton

How courts have described this case

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• loading a gun and driving 90 miles to wife’s abode, without firing gun or aiming it, constituted a substantial step toward causing bodily injury
• finding intent where appellant expressed his desire to kill his estranged wife for leaving ~
• “The statute prohibits the attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another or the causing of such injury.”
• affirmed conviction of attempted murder that was supported by evidence of intent to kill, and proof of substantial steps taken to cause death, regardless of evidence that defendant did not aim or fire gun at intended victim and no injury occurred
• where appellant was convicted for attempted murder and aggravated assault, the Commonwealth’s establishment of a corpus delicti for the crime of carrying a loaded weapon was closely related to appellant’s plan to kill his wife and arose out of the same transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).