Styles v. State

Whitman, Judge.

1. While it is no defense in a prosecution for unjustifiable homicide that the decedent received inferior medical treatment for the wound inflicted (Downing v. State, 114 Ga. 30 (2), (39 SE 927)), or that the death was proximately caused by a pre-existing physical condition of the decedent and was only aggravated or accelerated by the wound and would not have resulted from the wound alone (Wilson v. State, 190 Ga. 824, 829 (2) (10 SE2d 861); Wells v. State, 46 Ga. App. 412 (167 SE 709)), it is a defense that there was no causal relationship between the wound inflicted and the…