Commonwealth v. Troy

How courts have described this case

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

• intoxication has no mitigating effect on general intent to have intercourse or other elements of rape charge
• effect of felony-murder rule is to substitute intent to commit felony of rape for malice aforethought required for murder
• juiy may draw adverse inference from Commonwealth’s careless loss of defendant’s blood samples

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).