{"id":291,"date":"2012-10-18T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=291"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:32:45","slug":"37-transferred-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"37. Transferred Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 8: What Have You Done?
Page 10: Transferred Intent and Guild<\/p>\n

That’s called “transferred intent.” Joe’s intent to hurt Simon gets counted towards his hurting Mamie.<\/p>\n

In this case, the statute plainly says that it’s still Assault One if the harm happened to a third person. But even if it\u00a0hadn’t<\/strong> said so, Joe is still probably going to be guilty.<\/p>\n

All in all, actus reus is pretty much a matter of common sense. It’s the thing the law says “DON’T DO.”<\/p>\n

Person swimming beyond a “No Swimming” sign.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what if you\u00a0attempted<\/strong> to do it, with all the mens rea required, but didn’t succeed?<\/p>\n

We’ll talk about that next time in Part 9, “At Least You Tried”<\/p>\n

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