Rodríguez v. García

How courts have described this case

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

• holding accident defense not raised even though victim and accused testified that injury was by accident
• finding aggravated assault by culpable negligence even where the government and defense both agreed the appellant never intended to harm the victim
• “Assault with a dangerous weapon ... is not a specific intent offense. Rather, it is a general intent crime which may be committed even by a drunken assailant.”
• accused found guilty of assault with dangerous weapon where he wounded friend with a bullet to the chest, even though he believed he had unloaded his weapon before indulging in a fast draw practice
• “A T batteryd is defined as an unlawful and intentional” crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).