Question

A young boy was one of the players on a little league baseball team. The boy’s father hated the coach because he rarely gave his son any playing time. The boy was mostly a benchwarmer who played only an inning or two during the game.
One night, the father hid behind some shrubbery in front of the coach’s home. Armed with a baseball bat, the father intended to break the coach’s kneecaps when he came home from work. A man, who resembled the coach, was walking down the street. The father mistakenly believed that this man was the coach. The father jumped out of the bushes and hit the man in the kneecaps with the baseball bat. The man, who was a hemophiliac, died as a result of the injuries suffered in the beating.
The father is:________.
(A) guilty of attempted murder of the coach and the murder of the man.
(B) guilty of attempted murder of both the coach and the man.
(C) guilty of attempted manslaughter of the coach and murder of the man.
(D) guilty of attempted battery of the coach and murder of the man.

Answer 1

Answer:

D

Explanation:

He intended to harm the coach, not kill him, but he did kill the man with a purposeful hit, even if it wasn't intended for him