216 So. 3d 107 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Reading the pertinent parts of these articles together, the state in this case had the burden of proving that the defendant had the specific intent to kill and did an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward accomplishing it. State v. Butler , 322 So.2d 189 (La.1975) ; State v. Guin , 444 So.2d 625 (La.App. 3 Cir.1983). Specific criminal intent has been statutorily defined as the state of mind which exists when circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the proscribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act. La.R.S. 14:10(1). Since specific intent is a state of mind, it need not be proven as a fact, but rather may be inferred from the circumstances and the actions of the defendant. State v. Graham , 420 So.2d 1126 (La.1982). State v. Hongo , 625 So.2d 610 , 613 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1993), writ denied , 631 So.2d 1163 (La.1994).”

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