Ellis v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that to support a conviction for discharging a firearm “at or against any occupied building,” the Commonwealth need not establish that the defendant had a specific intent to shoot a particular building
• following rationale applied in Dowdy “that the legislative purpose of the statute is meant to prohibit unlawful conduct, whether malicious or merely criminally reckless, which has the potential to endanger the lives of persons inside occupied buildings”
• “[T]he evidence need only show that a defendant . . . knew or should have known that an occupied building or buildings were in his line of fire.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).