State of Tennessee v. Nathaniel Isaac Herrick
Syllabus
The Defendant, Nathaniel Isaac Herrick, appeals from the Sullivan County Criminal Court's probation revocation of his two-year sentence for drug-related convictions. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court abused its discretion by revoking his probation and ordering him to serve the remainder of his sentence in confinement. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
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- holding trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to give defendant’s tendered instruction on superseding cause, even though evidence supported giving such an instruction, where trial court gave adequate instruction on proximate cause
- noting “the jury is ... required to decide whether an actor’s negligence was a proximate cause of the plaintiffs injury”
- doctrine of superseding or intervening cause not abrogated by the Act, but was subsumed by the Act
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