Talk:Seddie/@comment-4233280-20120623034943/@comment-3247345-20120623044024

John didn't kill him. So he obviously couldn't be convicted of the act of killing him. Murder and manslaugher are out of the question here. Attemped murder/manslaugher is a harder question to answer. It would seem that attemped murder and attemped manslaughter might provide the answer. There's two things that generally must occur for someone to be convicted of a crime. First of all there has to be intent. Second of all there has to actal conduct that's criminal. Attempted murder/manslaughter requires the intent to kill. Clearly that was there. Whether his conduct violates the statute is hard to say. It really depends on what the statute says. If the statute is unclear, there's probably jurisprudence concerning the matter from state supreme courts.