Practice question
A minor assault does not threaten life. Independent forensic proof establishes that a stranger’s later unrelated intentional poisoning alone causes death, with no contribution from the original injury. What is material to the first assailant’s death liability?
- The first assailant’s preferred label alone
- The mere fact that the victim once met the assailant
- A rule attributing every death to the earliest wrong
- The proved wholly foreign independent fatal cause
- A rule that all poisoning is automatically linked to any earlier injury
Legal references
- Revised Penal Code, Articles3-4 and49, as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html
- Quinto v. Andres, GR155791, March16 2005, main decision, criminal causation: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/mar2005/gr_155791_2005.html
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