State v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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1. “Dr. Hill testified that the deceased died from “bronchial pneumonia,” but we conclude that the evidence is sufficient to show that the deceased’s susceptibility to this malady and his inability to fight it were related to the severe beating he received from the defendant. Dr. Hill stated that the victim’s pneumonia progressed because he would not cough, and Dr. Hill attributed his failure to cough to his impaired mental condition and added that the victim “just didn’t have the fight to take care of the pneumonia in his lungs.” Further, Dr. Hill stated that the victim “may not have ever got pneumonia if he hadn’t been beaten on.” Obviously, the victim’s weakened condition brought about by the defendant’s wrongful acts inhibited the victim’s ability to ward off the pneumonia. One who unlawfully inflicts a dangerous wound upon another is held for the consequences flowing from such injury, whether the sequence be direct or through the operation of intermediate agencies dependent upon and arising out of the original cause. To convict the defendant, it is not necessary that his act or failure to act be the sole cause, nor the most immediate cause of death. It is only necessary that the defendant unlawfully contributed to the death of the deceased.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 948 F. Supp. 2d 826 - Moore v. Steward · State v. Barnes