Epperly v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a witness’s mention of the word “polygraph” did not cause harmful error because the reference was elicited “without definition or elaboration”
• holding that defendant's efforts to conceal his crime and avoid detection support jury's finding that defendant acted willfully and with malice
• emphasizing that direct and circumstantial evidence are \entitled to the same weight\
• “[M]alice is implied by law from any deliberate, willful, and cruel act against another, however sudden.”
• “Every fact, however remote or insignificant, that tends to establish the probability or improbability of a fact in issue, is admissible.”
• “It is the will and purpose to kill, not necessarily the interval of time, which determine the grade of the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).