Commonwealth v. Geathers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding crime of attempted murder requires specific intent
• “For a defendant to be found guilty of attempted murder, the Commonwealth must establish specific intent to kill.”
• court incorrectly instructed jury that malice, rather than specific intent, was sufficient to prove attempted murder
• \[M]alice is not an element of attempted murder.\
• “[M]alice is not an element of attempted murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).