CALCRIM No. 800

The defendant is charged [in Count] with aggravated mayhem

[in violation of Penal Code section 205].

To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must

prove that:

1. The defendant unlawfully and maliciously (disabled or disfigured

someone permanently/ [or] deprived someone else of a limb,

organ, or part of (his/her) body);

2. When the defendant acted, (he/she) intended to (permanently

disable or disfigure the other person/ [or] deprive the other

person of a limb, organ, or part of (his/her) body);

AND

3. Under the circumstances, the defendant’s act showed extreme

indifference to the physical or psychological well-being of the

other person.

Someone acts maliciously when he or she intentionally does a wrongful

act or when he or she acts with the unlawful intent to annoy or injure

someone else.

[A disfiguring injury may be permanent even if it can be repaired by

medical procedures.]

[The People do not have to prove that the defendant intended to kill.]

New January 2006; Revised August 2015, September 2018