Lawman v. State

The earnest insistence of able counsel for this aged appellant, to the effect that it is clearly manifest from the proven facts in this case there was no intention upon the part of defendant to take the life of William Abbott, deceased, in the minor difficulty between these parties, must of necessity be answered by the well-known rule of law to the effect that the law presumes every person intends to do that which he does, and that the defendant must be presumed to have designed not only what he did, but also that the necessary and probable consequences of his acts were intended. McElroy v.…