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Universal malice

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

By this term is not meant a malicious purpose to take the life of all persons, but it is that depravity of the human heart which determines to take life upon slight or insufficient provocation, without knowing or caring who may be the victim.

Mitchell v. State, 60 Ain. 30.