136 Tex. Crim. 404 - Duhon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “The intent rests exclusively within the mind of the person committing the offense, the existence of which is inferred from acts committed or words spoken. The law presumes that a person intends that which is the natural or probable consequences of his act. If a person is driving an automobile in such manner as to show a reckless disregard for the life of another, and in so doing runs upon or over the person who happens to be in the course of his travel, it shows an evil disposition from which inference would arise that he intended the natural or probable consequences of his act. An automobile may not be a deadly weapon per se; yet if from the manner of its use it is likely or calculated to produce death, the presumption obtains that death was intended.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parrish v. State