State v. Williams

JUSTICE KITTREDGE :

**149 In this case, the Court is asked whether and to what extent the common law doctrine of transferred intent applies to the newly-codified crime of attempted murder. Petitioner Gerald Williams was convicted of three counts of attempted murder related to his alleged shooting into an occupied mobile home where he knew his intended victim was present, but did not realize two other individuals were also present.

**150 Under the common law, transferred intent makes a whole crime out of two halves by *703 joining the intent to harm one victim with the actual harm caused to another.…