Ellis v. Commonwealth

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• holding that the usual definition of “willful” applies to Code § 18.2-371.1
• finding the evidence “fail[ed] to show that [Ellis] left the apartment knowing the [gas stove] burner was on and in conscious disregard of the likely ignition of a grease fire that would ultimately endanger the lives of her children”
• defendant left her children alone in their apartment where she had inadvertently left a stove burner on, eventually igniting a fire
• defendant, who left two year old and four year old home alone while she went to building next door, not criminally negligent when gas stove, which was accidentally left on, caused fire that injured both children
• internal 4 This deferential standard of review “applies not only to the historical facts themselves, but the inferences from those facts as well.” Crowder v. Commonwealth, 41 Va. App. 658, 663 n.2, 588 S.E.2d 384, 387 n.2 (2003

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).