People v. Ephraim

How courts have described this case

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

• the doctrine of transferred intent has been applied to “attempted murder cases where an unintended victim is injured”
• explicitly rejecting Harvey v. State, 111 Md.App. 401, 681 A.2d 628 (1996), and holding that transferred intent is applicable in attempted second degree murder cases where the unintended victim is injured
• explicitly rejecting Harvey v. State, 111 Md.App. 401, 681 A.2d 628 (1996), and holding that transferred intent is applicable in attempted second degree murder cases where the unintended victim is injured
• “evidence that the defendant fired a gun, coupled with nothing more, is generally not sufficient to prove a specific intent to kill”
• the act of shooting in a manner “the direct and natural tendency of which is to destroy another’s life” evidence of intent to kill (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “ ‘The very fact of firing a gun at a person supports the conclusion that the person doing so acted with an intent to kill.’ ” (quoting People v. Thorns, 62 Ill. App. 3d 1028, 1031 (1978))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).