397 So. 2d 748 - Dunn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Because the facts of this case are different from Kimbrough , we need not pass on whether we agree with our sister court that an information which merely recites an attempted murder by way of a shooting sufficiently alleges the element of well-founded fear for purposes of charging a lesser included offense of aggravated assault. Cf. State v. Dye, 346 So.2d 538 (Fla. 1977), in which the supreme court held that no essential elements of a crime should be left to inference in an information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 593 So. 2d 1129 - Von Deck v. State

2. “Count I alleges that the defendant attempted to unlawfully kill a human being and did shoot him with a firearm. This shooting surely constitutes a threat to do violence to another with the apparent ability to do so by an act which could create a well founded fear in the victim of imminent violence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 593 So. 2d 1129 - Von Deck v. State

3. “[I]t is not always necessary for the victim to testify that he was afraid in order to sustain a conviction of assault.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 745 So. 2d 1051 - Biggs v. State