What is the test for determining whether a defendant's intent to kill was established by the evidence of unprovoked violence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Moore, B282184 (Cal. App. 2018):
and vital organs of [the] victims . . . supports the reasonable inference . . . that the blows were intended to kill rather than merely wound"]; People v. Gonzalez (2005) 126 Cal.App.4th 1539, 1552 [defendant's intent to kill "was established by the evidence of his unprovoked attack that rendered the unarmed victim prone and defenseless as [the defendant] repeatedly stabbed him"].)
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