Reference no: EM133990168
Assignment:
Bertha steals Stella's boyfriend, Bob. Furious, Stella vows she will kill Bertha and hurt Bob. Stella buys a knife and waits in her car, in the parking lot of Al's market, where Bertha works. Tina, Stella's friend is in the car with Stella. Stella who simply intends to kill Bertha, tells Tina she wanted to "rob" Al's after all his employees left and wanted Tina to have the car running, so she could "jump In" and quickly leave.
Unbeknownst to Stella, Bob is waiting in the parking lot to pick Bertha up. As Bertha walks out of the store, Stella gets out with her knife in hand and walks toward Bertha. Bob immediately gets out of his car and runs toward Bertha. However, Stella quickly stabs Bertha killing her. Al who was watching his employee, Bertha, walk out of the store, ran out, when he saw Stella approaching Bertha with a knife.
Stella quickly turns to Bob and screams that she still loves him but has to hurt him and slashes at his thigh, but hits his Femoral artery. Frank eventually bleeds to death. But, as she was slashing at Frank, Al came up to try to stop her and was hit by the knife in the neck hitting his Carotid artery. Al, like Frank bled to death.
Define the following Common law murder terms: Intent to Kill, Deadly Weapons Doctrine, Transferred Intent, Intent to do Serious Bodily Harm, and Felony Murder. Discuss Stella's and Tina's possible criminal liability or not, in light of "all" those homicide crimes at common law.
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