STATE v. SAUTER 120 Ariz. 222, 585 P.2d 242 (1978). CASE BRIEF

STATE V. SAUTER

120 Ariz. 222, 585 P.2d 242 (1978)

NATURE OF THE CASE: This was an appeal from a voluntary manslaughter conviction.

FACTS: Sauter (D) stabbed Lines during an altercation. Lines was taken to the hospital. There the surgeon negligently failed to discover a puncture of Lines' aorta, which led to Lines' death from internal bleeding. D was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He appealed; the surgeon's malpractice was a superseding cause of Lines' death.

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