Commonwealth v. Hudgens

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that evidence was sufficient to support intent to terrorize victim when defendant threatened to “stick the victim with the sword” that the defendant was holding in his hand
• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support intent to terrorize victim where the defendant threatened to “stick the victim with the sword” that he was holding in his hand
• holding that where a defendant displays a weapon while threatening a victim, the victim was “subjected to the precise type of psychological harm and impairment of personal security which the statute seeks to prevent”
• holding that defendant need not specify the type of violence he intends to commit where the type of crime may be inferred from the nature of the statement and the context and circumstances surrounding the utterance of the statement
• holding no need to inform victim of specific crime intended where nature of threat and surrounding circumstances allowed inference of threat to commit murder or aggravated assault
• holding evidence sufficient to support intent to terrorize when defendant threatened to “stick the victim with the sword” that defendant simultaneously held in his hand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).