Commonwealth v. Chambers

On the basis of the evidence most favorable to the Commonwealth, the jury were warranted in finding that Jason Chambers, in jealous rage, aimed and drove his automobile into one in which his former lover was a passenger, and which was owned and driven by her new paramour. For that expression of *48wrath, a Superior Court jury convicted Chambers of four counts of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, an automobile. G. L. c. 265, § l5B(b).1

The crime of assault breaks down into two subcategories: an attempted battery (e.g., intentionally swinging at a person with a baseball bat and missing) or a…