State v. Yosua

I. In the course of his opening statement, counsel for the defendant asserted that the crime charged could not be established unless it appeared that there was “such heedlessness and such a degree of carelessness, such gross carelessness that it amounts to a conscious disregard for the consequences and you twelve men in your experience in life know pretty well what the law seeks to do in felonies, serious crimes. It seeks to punish the wicked or the guilty mind ....” The County Solicitor interrupted at this point with the objection “you haven’t got to have intent or any mind of guilt.” With…