People v. Kibbe
New York Court of Appeals
35 N.Y.2d 407 (1974)
Relevant factsFree
After robbing an extremely intoxicated victim in their car, the defendants stripped him of his shoes, coat, and glasses, pulled his pants down around his legs, and pushed him out onto a dark, snowy, zero-degree highway shoulder, where within 30 minutes a college student, unable to see him due to poor visibility, struck and killed him with a truck.
IssueFree
Whether, to prove the crime of murder, the prosecution must show that the defendant's actions were a sufficiently direct cause of the death.