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See, (“We have consistently held that when an erroneous jury instruction eliminates a required element of the crime this type of error is not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”); -59 (Minn. 2001) (concluding an error is not harmless if it removes the state’s burde

However, “[a] mistaken jury instruction does not require a new trial if the error was harmless.”

“A party is entitled to an instruction if the evidence produced at trial supports the instruction .” (citation omitted).

“A mistaken jury instruction does not require a new trial if the error was harmless.”

–82 (Minn. 2006); see also Nancy Ehrenreich, Attempt, Merger, and Transferred Intent, 82 Brook.

“Intent to kill may be inferred from the manner of the killing.” 12 see also State v. Harris , (finding intent to kill after considering the severity of injuries to the victim); (noting that in tent to cause death “may be inferred from the manner of shooting the victim”).

The doctrine of transferred intent “is the principle that a defendant may be convicted if it is proved he intended to injure one person but actually harmed another.” (quoting 9 Henry W. McCarr & Jack S. Nordby, Minnesota Practice § 44.8 (3d ed. 2001)).

Transferred intent “is the principle that a defendant may be convicted if it is proved he intended to injure one person but actually harmed another.” d 472, 477 (Minn. 2006) (quotin g 9 Harry W. McCarr & Jack Nordby, Minnesota Practice § 44.8 (3d ed. 2001)).

-78 (Minn. 2006) (noting that intent can be transferred in first -degree premeditated murder cases); -14 (Minn. App. 2013) (discussing that “Minnesota caselaw has consistently applied the doctrine of transferred intent to specific-intent crimes”), review denied (Minn. Aug.

(“A mistaken jury instruction does not require a new trial if the error was harmless.”).

“An instruction is in error if it materially misstates the law,” but “[a] mistaken jury instruction does not require a new trial if the error was harmless.”

An erroneous jury instruction is harmless only if it can be said that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the error had no significant impact on the verdict rendered.” (citation omitted).

“[W]hen an erroneous jury instruction eliminates a required element of the crime this type of error is not harmless beyond a reasonable 4 doubt.”

In light of these factors, the error is harmless if, “beyond a reasonable doubt, [it] had no significant impact on the verdict rendered.”

In reaching that conclusion, d *25 675 (Minn.2007), for the proposition that an omission of an element of a charged offense from the jury instructions “as a matter of law” affects a party’s substantial rights.

Transferred intent “is the principle that a defendant may be convicted if it is proved he intended to injure one person but actually harmed another.” (quoting *913 McCarr & Nordby, Minnesota Practice § 44.8 (3d ed.2001)).

In Mahkuk , the supreme court reaffirmed that it had “consistently held that when an erroneous jury instruction eliminates a required element of the crime[,] this type of error is not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” d at 683 ().

We have said “our rule for giving the transferred intent instruction requires that at the time of his actions the defendant intended to kill one person but instead accidentally killed another person.”

That doctrine, derived from the common law, stands for the principle that “ ‘a defendant may be convicted if it is proved he intended to injure one person but actually harmed another.’ ” (quoting 9 Henry W. McCarr & Jack S. Nordby, Minnesota Practice-Criminal Law and Procedure § 44.8 (3d ed.2001)).

Section 609.185 “incorporates the traditional doctrine of ‘transferred intent,’ ” under which “[premeditation will transfer with intent if the perpetrator premeditated the murder of an intended victim but accidentally, killed an unintended victim,”

But “[p]remeditation will transfer with intent if the perpetrator premeditated the murder of an intended victim but accidentally killed an unintended victim.”