33 Md. App. 185 - Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 1986
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State · State v. Evans · 29 Md. App. 1 - Brown v. State · 32 Md. App. 307 - Squire v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he excuse of accident is not, of course, an affirmative type of defense but is rather a negation of the central element of an intentional killing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To justify a conviction of first degree murder, the jury must find that there was an actual intent to kill, a fully formed purpose to kill, with enough time for deliberation and premeditation to convince you, the trier of the facts that the purpose to kill is not the immediate offspring of rashness and impetuous temper, but that the mind had become fully conscious of its own design. For a homicide to be wilful, there must be a specific purpose and design to kill. To be deliberate, there must be a full and conscious knowledge of the purpose to' kill. To be premeditated, the design to kill must have preceded the killing by an appreciable length of time, that is, time enough to deliberate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the jury found the appellant guilty of first degree murder, it is clear that it did not rely upon the erroneous instruction presuming all felonious homicides to constitute second degree murder; instead it concluded that the State had sustained the burden properly placed upon it by the instructions of proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the killing was willful, deliberate, and premeditated and hence not unintentional or accidental, as claimed by the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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