State v. Mauldin

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• concluding the 11 legislature regulates classes of items, and the judiciary should not extend liability under the felony murder rule for death as a result of a controlled substance
• where defendant only sold heroin to the victim and the victim ingested the heroin sometime later out of the presence of the defendant, the defendant could not be guilty of felony murder
• the felonious sale of heroin was complete when seller and purchaser parted company, so purchaser’s subsequent injection of it did not occur while the felony was being perpetrated
• felony of selling heroin alone not sufficient to fall within scope of felony-murder statute

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