Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 18-115 (2026)
Manifestation of intent.
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Manifestation of intent.
Intent or intention is manifested by the commission of the acts and surrounding circumstances connected with the offense.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 27
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1955–2022 · leading case: State v. Card, 825 P.2d 1081 (Idaho 1991).
State v. Card, 825 P.2d 1081 (Idaho 1991). “While I.C. § 18-115 includes language concerning the discretion and soundness of a defendant's mind, it is clear that those elements are simply a part of all of the circumstances or conditions which manifest the intent of the defendant.”
State v. McDougall, 749 P.2d 1025 (Idaho Ct. App. 1988). “McDougall calls our attention to I.C. § 18-115, which reads: "The intent or intention *1029 is manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense, and the sound mind and discretion of the accused.”
State v. Enno, 807 P.2d 610 (Idaho 1991). “§ 18-114 and also contains language from I.C. § 18-115 allowing the jury to determine intent from the circumstances connected with the offense as well as the state of mind of the defendant at the time of the crime.”
State v. Reyes, 80 P.3d 1103 (Idaho Ct. App. 2003). “Additionally, I.C. § 18-115 provides that “intent or intention is manifested by the commission of the acts and surrounding circumstances connected with the offense.”
State v. Beam, 710 P.2d 526 (Idaho 1985). “" Section 18-115, Idaho Code, defines "intent" as an element that is "manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense, and the sound mind and discretion of the accused.”
Stuart v. State, 801 P.2d 1216 (Idaho 1990). “" Second, as was already highlighted: [T]he legislative abolition of intent in its alternative definition of murder by torture is clearly in conflict with the first definition, that which was properly adopted from the California Supreme Court, and also in headlong conflict with…”
State v. Stuart, 715 P.2d 833 (Idaho 1986). “Beyond that, the legislative abolition of intent in its alternative definition of murder by torture is clearly in conflict with the first definition, that which was properly adopted from the California Supreme Court, and also in headlong conflict with § 18-114: "In every crime…”
State v. Gratiot, 663 P.2d 1084 (Idaho 1983). “Although the State’s witnesses testified that the defendant was intoxicated on the day in question, the question of whether his intoxication so affected him that he could not have had the necessary intent to commit the offense was for the jury.”
State v. Byington, 977 P.2d 211 (Idaho Ct. App. 1998). “On occasion, Byington took some of the children four-wheeling and snowmobiling.”
State v. Iverson, 289 P.2d 603 (Idaho 1955). “I.C. § 18-115 provides: "The intent or intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the offense, and the sound mind and discretion of the accused * * *.”
State v. Kay, 927 P.2d 897 (Idaho Ct. App. 1996). “We next consider Kay’s assertion that there was a lack of evidence to support the State’s allegation in the information that he acted with the intent that the victim be “kept and/or detained against her will.”
State v. Herr, 554 P.2d 961 (Idaho 1976). “I.C. § 18-115. At issue is the measure of proof necessary to prove the element of “intent to keep or conceal [the child] from its parent.”
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