If he'd survived.
If say he'd been killed after the transfer, I'm not sure Police would have checked to see if the victim had made any domain name transfers prior to the home invasion.
Not to mention, owning the domain is a permanent record, so even if they don't check it immediately, the evidence can always resurface years later.
No one with half a brain would risk an assault conviction for a bloody domain name transfer.
But here we are, dumbfounded as we can possibly be.
I might! Provided the domain was something like blockchain.info, myetherwallet.com or some other domain that you could easily use to steal hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency.
Although, if there's a serious risk of an assault conviction then the plan probably just isn't very good.
Just go with a vanity domain and just skip the assault charges. Go with blockchain.christmas or blockchain.website. Problem solved!
The entire situation is a hypothetical, so the only thing you can operate with is assumptions.
I think it'd be an easy case. I'm just glad it didn't come to that and the domain owner is alive and well, all things considered.