Wright v. State
Supreme Court of Delaware
1Opinion of the Court
McNEILLY, Justice:
Defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree, 11 Del.C. § 636, 1 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In this appeal he raises nine contentions, including the propriety of exclusion of evidence of medical malpractice and maltreatment as an intervening cause of death in a murder case, which we will consider in this opinion. We affirm the conviction.
I
Defendant spent the night of January 28, 1974, at the apartment of friends in Laurel. The following morning he and a friend, who was staying in the same apartment, got up at about 10:30 or 11:00 a.…
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