OPINION
SILLS, P.J.
I
Using medical experts to show the cause of an effect is not new. In 1742, James Annesley was charged with murder for shooting a poacher. The case turned on whether Annesley shot the poacher accidentally or intentionally. Annesley hired a surgeon to testify as an expert witness on his behalf at trial in London's Old Bailey. The surgeon said that he introduced a probe into the poacher's wound and traced the path of the bullet...
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