State Ex Rel. Petrelis v. Schott

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• upholding proximate cause instruction and malice murder conviction where the defendant smashed the victim’s skull with a hatchet and the victim died nine months later from infection and gangrenous lung abscess
• assault by defendant was proximate cause of victim’s death, where victim died nine months after assault from infection that was secondary to the wounds sustained in the assault
• injury must be the sole proximate cause; or directly and materially contribute to happening of subsequent immediate cause; or materially accelerate death proximately occasioned by pre-existent cause
• assault by defendant was proximate cause of victim’s death, where victim died nine months after assault from infection that was secondary to the wounds sustained in the assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).