Martha Anne Woolum v. Michael W. Ault, Donald Ault and State Farm Ins.

How courts have described this case

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

• malice “means only that [the defendant] intended to kill the victims and that such an intent to kill was unlawful, unexcused, without justification and without any mitigation”
• “It is therefore possible to set in motion events which, although intended to murder, nevertheless fall so short of the mark that they do not constitute an attempted battery.”
• malice and specific intent to kill are separate elements of attempted murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).