Hounshell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that the time necessary to commit a killing by strangulation affords a perpetrator \a significant opportunity for reflection and a change of heart\
• affirming premeditated first-degree murder conviction where strangulation took place over an “appreciable length of time” giving the defendant opportunity for “premeditation and deliberation”
• stating 61 that for a killing to be premeditated, there need not have been an appreciable space of time between the intention and the act: “they may be as instantaneous as successive thoughts of the mind”
• first-degree murder — wilful, deliberate, premeditated— “is the actual intent coupled with the fully-formed malicious purpose to kill”
• question whether the time required to produce death by strangulation is sufficient for the assailant to reflect upon his actions before death ensues is a matter for the jury to determine
• question of whether the time it takes to produce death by strangulation is sufficient for a defendant to reflect on his or her actions before death ensues is a jury question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).