Chance

In criminal law. An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen or unintended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event The opposite of intention, design or contrivance. There is a wide difference between chance and accident. The one is the intervention of some unlooked-for circumstance to prevent an expected result; the other is the uncalculated effect of mere luck. The shot discharged at random strikes its object by chance; that which is turned aside from its well-directed nim by some unforeseen circumstance misses its mark by accident. Pure chance consists in the entire absence of nil the means of calculating results ; accident, in the up usual prevention of an effect naturally resulting from the means employed. Harless v. U. S.. Morris (Iowa) 173.

— Chance verdict. One determined by hazard or lot, and not by the deliberate understanding and agreement of the jury. Goodman v. Cody, 1 Wash. T. 335, 34 Am. Rep. 808; Dixon v. Pluns, 98 Cal. 384, 33 Pac. 268, 20 In R. A. 698, 35 Am. St. Rep. 180; Improvement Co., v. Adams, 1 Colo. App. 250, 28 Paa 662.