United States v. Raymond Carl Skeet

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• noting that fear on the part of the victim is not an essential element of the assault charge which involved battery based on a gunshot wound
• holding witness should not be allowed to give opinion as to whether shooting was accidental where jury could be put into a position of equal vantage with the witness for drawing the opinion
• holding witness should not be allowed to give opinion as to whether shooting was accidental where jury could be put into a position of equal vantage with the witness for drawing the opinion
• describing the intent for simple assault to be “that [the defendant] intended to threaten [the victim]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).