Wooden v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “murder is not elsewhere defined in the Code”
• relying on Pennsylvania law and rejecting the Commonwealth’s argument that proximate cause without malice can support a felony murder conviction
• criminal participant in a felony may not be convicted of the felony-murder of a co-felon killed by the victim of the initial felony
• \ 'Malice aforethought is the grand criterion which distinguishes murder from other killings.' \ (quoting M'Whirt's Case, 44 Va. (3 Gratt.) 594, 605 (1846))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).