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Tate v. State

Citations

  • 570 S.E.2d 522
  • 351 S.C. 418
  • 2002 S.C. LEXIS 171

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  • holding that ABHAN is the unlawful act of violent injury to another accompanied by circumstances of aggravation, such as use of a deadly weapon
  • concluding evidence of malice existed apart from the use of a deadly weapon where defendant shot and killed the victim, a motel desk clerk, when she refused to give him money from the motel and threatened the defendant with a pair of scissors
  • \Malice is the wrongful intent to injure another and indicates a wicked or depraved spirit intent on doing wrong. It is the doing of a wrongful act intentionally and without just cause or excuse.\ (citations omitted)

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Judges: Waller, Toal, Moore, Burnett, Pleicones

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