Attempted murder

In the film "The Tiger Hunt," which continues the story of the fight against the criminal community, Holmes reveals the details of his duel with Moriarty and stages an assassination attempt on himself  to lure out another member of the criminal community. The film presents an interesting legal dilemma: can a person be charged with attempted murder when certain elements, including the target of the crime, have been staged?
According to the plot of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Empty House," which served as the basis for the film, after the duel with Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock returns to London and finds himself in the crosshairs of Colonel Sebastian Moran - an accomplice of the deceased Moriarty. Holmes asks a sculptor to create a wax figure to simulate his presence in the flat at 221B Baker Street, which is being watched by Moriarty's accomplices.
In the presented shot, the viewer sees Miss Hudson, impeccably performed by actress Rina Zelyonaya. At Mycroft Holmes' request, Miss Hudson uses a stick to hold a newspaper for the wax figure of Sherlock, creating an illusion of the real Holmes' presence in the flat.

Moran, believing Holmes is home, fires at him from a neighboring building but hits the dummy. The real Sherlock Holmes observes this from a distance. When the criminal realizes he has been discovered, a fight ensues, and Holmes blows a whistle, signaling a group of police officers who arrive at the scene.
Under the English Offences Against the Person Act 1861, shooting at a wax figure could not be considered a felony: mens rea (guilty intent) alone does not constitute a criminal offense—there must also be actus reus (a voluntary criminal act) and a resulting harm. Applying the 1861 Act to the shooting of a wax figure would most likely have led to Colonel Moran's acquittal, based on the principle that if actus reus is not established, there is no criminal act.