Sentence examples for guilty intent from inspiring English sources

This was all the knowledge or guilty intent that the act required.

How can we imprison somebody who has no demonstrated guilty intent or action – there was none of that?

Other antitrust specialists said that even setting noncompeting dates for auctions seemed to constitute restraint of trade, but that if it were done openly a jury might conclude that it was done without guilty intent.

This fact in itself would be normal if one could isolate it from all the others; but added to all the other elements in the case, it clearly shows the guilty intent of the conspirators, for this absolute secrecy alone could imply the use of the criminal means which we shall have to emphasize.

Thom Gunn, reading poems of his in London two years ago said: "My greatest fear is that I'll discover or, worse, that someone else will point out to me that I've stolen another man's words, thinking them my own".Plagiarists, like forgers, have guilty intent, but of interestingly different kinds.

It is true that, if the act in question is a natural and probable consequence of an intended wrongful act, then the unintended wrong may derive its character from the wrong that was intended; but, if the unintended wrong was not a natural and probable consequence of the intended wrongful act, then this artificial character cannot be ascribed to it, as a basis of guilty intent.

Three defendants pleaded guilty to intent to cause explosions, the judge announced Monday, in what was apparently an attempt to convince the jury that their intention was not to commit mass murder, as prosecutors alleged.

On Dec. 30, Pimentel pleaded not guilty to intent to distribute cocaine, carrying a firearm during a drug crime, and bribery of a public official.

Vicente Zambada-Niebla pleaded guilty to intent to distribute multiple tons of cocaine and heroin in 2013, and his reported knowledge of Guzman's role could make a prosecution there more likely.

The definition of assault typically provides that a person is guilty if "with intent to cause physical injury, a person engages in conduct that causes physical injury".

To say that he has been found guilty of an intent to injure or defraud his employer, and not merely for breaking his contract and not paying his debt, is a distinction without a difference to Bailey.