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 time<span>wounds inflicted, if there were prior attacks against the victim by the defendant, and what</span>
