McKinley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the requisite state of mind for second-degree murder is “intended to define a particular state of mind which must be found to have existed in the defendant at the time the crime was committed-the mens rea.”
• “‘[T]he words “cruel, wicked and depraved indifference to human life” are intended to define a particular state of mind . . . .’”
• “The words ‘cruel, wicked, and depraved indifference to human life[]’ are intended to define a particular state of mind . . . “ that distinguishes Murder in the Second Degree from the lesser crime of Manslaughter.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Dowling
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2011-04-12· cited 88×
• State v. Ford
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-04-19
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-05-01
• State v. Smith
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-06-10
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-05-27