Read v. Georgia Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that intentional second-degree murder is a specific intent crime
• concluding defendant’s act of intentionally beating his victim evidenced conscious and unjustifiable disregard of danger to his victim and supported conviction for second-degree recldess murder
• focusing on the distinction between an intention to act, i.e., to hit, and an intention to obtain a result, i.e., to kill
• discussing distinction between intent to commit a specific act and intent to cause a type of injury, such as death or great bodily harm
• looking for an act “performed with knowledge the victim is in imminent danger,” even if the ultimate injury—death—was not foreseen
• “We approve of the language used as a clear statement of the burden of the State in criminal trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).