State v. Sauter

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

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Nature of the Case

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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.