Hoes v. State

How courts have described this case

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• upholding assault with intent to maim conviction because “the pointing of a gun toward another human and discharging it in random fashion is sufficient to support inferences of intent to do grievous bodily harm.”
• upholding assault with intent to maim conviction because \the pointing of a gun toward another human and discharging it in random fashion is sufficient to support inferences of intent to do grievous bodily harm.\
• evidence that defendant had on two prior occasions, four and five years earlier, shot his girlfriend was admissible to negate his claim, when charged with shooting his girlfriend, that his shotgun had discharged accidentally
• jury may be “predisposed to convict [the defendant’s] ‘reputation’ ”
• “jury may be predisposed to convict [the defendant’s] ‘reputation’ ”
• At trial defendant admitted that he had thrown a gun up, and it went off, but denied he intended to shoot the victim; the other crimes evidence of shooting the same victim four or five years ago was admitted.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).