People v. Beaudin

417 Mich. 570 (1983)

339 N.W.2d 461

PEOPLE

v.

BEAUDIN

Docket No. 68199.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 24, 1983.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Karl E. Kraus, Prosecuting Attorney, and Mary C. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, for the people.

John S. Gilbreath, Jr., P.C., for the defendant.

We are asked to decide whether the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury regarding specific intent[1] in the case of a defendant charged with endangering the lives of persons traveling on a railroad.[2] We hold that the instruction should have been…