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BAYLOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 12534.

407 A.2d 664 (1979)

Paige T. BAYLOR, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Barrett, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, and Frederick A. Douglas, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and MACK, Associate Judges.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

This appeal raises questions on the issue of medical treatment as an intervening cause of death of the victim in criminal homicide cases. Appellant was charged with second-degree murder1 and was convicted of the lesser-included offense of involuntary manslaughter. The government's evidence showed that appellant struck his wife (Mrs. Baylor) in the side with great force, thereby rupturing her spleen and causing...

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