Farmers State Bank v. Crawford

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant’s intent to kill could be inferred from “the nature, extent, and location” of four knife wounds in the victim’s back
• concluding that, although the prosecutor’s statement during closing argument amounted to misconduct, the defendant was not prejudiced because the statement was not “so inflammatory as to have prejudiced [the] defendant.”
• requesting that another dispose of the knife used to stab the -3- victim is interference with the administration of justice
• stating that assault with the intent to commit murder requires proof that the defendant assaulted another with the actual intent to kill
• stating that a defense lawyer is not required to advocate a meritless position
• PSIR indicated that the victim suffered from depression and that his personality changed as a result of poor health following the assault and amputations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).