Where an accused fires multiple shots at a victim, escalating from non-vital to vital areas of the body, a jury may infer intent to kill from the course of conduct without needing to resolve every disputed factual sub-issue. A unanimity direction is not required where the Crown case is based on a course of conduct and the jury must have been unanimous as to the last act in the sequence. Lane v The Queen is distinguishable where the Crown case is not confined to a particular act but to the whole course of events.
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