State v. Amos Branch

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• second-degree murder conviction predicated on felony-murder rule modified to manslaughter when felony-murder rule was held inapplicable to felonious assault
• “[Cjourts ... have held that where the only felony committed (apart from the murder itself) was the assault upon the victim which resulted in the death of the victim, the assault merged with the killing and could not be relied upon by the state as an ingredient of a ‘felony murder.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).