Question

What circumstances are usually presented by the prosecution to bear on the issue of whether a killing was premeditated or with malice aforethought?

Answer 1

The prosecutionusually attempts to establish either malice aforethought or premeditation by introducing avariety of evidentiary facts and sets of circumstances bearing on the defendant’s motive and state of mind; which include the defendant’s previous relationship with the victim, threats,quarrels, the defendant’s expressions of ill will towards the victim either before, at the timewounds inflicted, if there were prior attacks against the victim by the defendant, and what