Practice question
After a nonfatal injury, a completely unrelated disaster subjects the victim to a new fatal mechanism. Competent evidence conclusively establishes that this independent mechanism alone caused death and the initial wound neither caused nor accelerated it. The prosecutor invokes Article4 as automatic liability for every later consequence. What is correct?
- Article4 eliminates causation whenever any felony occurred
- Article4 still requires proximate causation; the stipulated independent cause defeats this death attribution
- Every subsequent event is automatically part of the first offense
- No independent disaster can ever break a chain
- The first offender automatically commits every later felony
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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