It is a question of proximity and degree."). For example, in Cox v. State 180 Ga.App. 820, 350 S.E.2d 828 (1986), the defendant's conviction for attempted murder of his wife and her former boyfriend was affirmed. Witnesses testified that he had threatened to kill the pair and that he had spent two nights under the porch of his mobile home with a .410 pump shotgun, expecting them to drive by. Also, the male victim's brother found a stick of dynamite and blue and yellow wiring attached to the family car, and earlier that week, the defendant had displayed a stick of dynamite to a friend and told him he was going to place it under the car used by the family of his wife's boyfriend.