United States v. Gordon Alexander, United States of America v. Benjamin Murdock

How courts have described this case

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• single act, directed to a group, constitutes a single offense, although more than one person is put in fear
• holding, in a case in which the defendant pointed a gun at a group of people, “where by a single act or course of action a defendant has put in fear different members of a group towards which the action is collectively directed, he is guilty of but one offense”
• “Mere words standing alone, no matter how insulting, no matter how offensive, no matter how abusive, are not adequate to acquit the defendant of second degree murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).