Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm — if the killer threw a stone without seeing the victim and without prior hostility, the presumption shifts to unintentional killing. The lack of enmity and the lack of anticipation of the victim's presence both suggest absence of malice aforethought.

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