Criminal Law Chapter 6

Question 1

Rideout

Answer 1

A ∆ may not be held guilty of a crime in which his conduct is the cause-in-fact of injury but not the proximate cause, since a superseding cause intervened (victim’s choice)

Question 2

State v. Rose

Answer 2

To find ∆ guilty of manslaughter, the jury would have to find that the victim was alive when conduct constituted culpable negligence