State v. Gould

We do not find the difficulty in the wording of see. 940.22, Stats., 1 which Gould does. The legislature created the crime of “aggravated battery” by enactment of ch. 696, sec. 1, Laws of 1955, in the following language, “Whoever intentionally causes great bodily harm to another . . . .” This crime contained three elements: The intention to cause great bodily harm, the causation by some act, and the degree of harm suffered by someone other than the actor. The statute did not embrace the situation involving what is known as a “transferred intent,” where an actor intends to harm A but his acts…