Curry v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that general intent crimes, like voluntary manslaughter, are inconsistent with the specific intent required for a criminal attempt
• holding that general intent crime of voluntary manslaughter is incompatible with specific intent required for criminal attempt, and stating that “attempted voluntary manslaughter is therefore an illogical illusion”
• holding that attempted voluntary manslaughter is not a crime in Nevada because attempt is a specific intent crime and one cannot logically commit voluntary manslaughter with a specific intent
• explaining that “voluntary manslaughter is a general intent crime”
• “One cannot logically specifically intend to act pursuant to a spontaneous, unanticipated, and therefore, truly irresistible passion”; voluntary manslaughter general intent crime; thus attempted voluntary manslaughter cannot exist.
• holding that attempted voluntary manslaughter is not a crime in Nevada because attempt is a specific intent crime, and one cannot logically commit voluntary manslaughter with a specific intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Holbron
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1995-10-20· cited 136×
• State v. Jernigan
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-12-16· cited 91×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-07-14· cited 72×
• Sharma v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-10-31· cited 37×
• Tanksley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-08-28· cited 22×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-05· cited 15×
• State v. Latham
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2014-09-03· cited 14×
• CHABOT (WACEY) v. STATE (CRIMINAL)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2026-04-09· cited 1×
• State Of Washington v. Dontrail Latham
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2014-09-03

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Foster
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-02-23· cited 119×
• Keys v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-12-29· cited 63×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1964-05-14· cited 35×
• Bailey v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1984-10-04· cited 11×