State v. Slonaker

How courts have described this case

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

• defining second degree murder as “the unlawful killing of another with malice.” (Citation omitted)
• “A jury instruction about malice should be, that it is not essential that malice should have existed for any length of time before the killing, but it is sufficient if malice springs into the mind before the accused did the killing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).