Heath v. State

The evidence was not conflicting as to the fact that the immediate cause of the death of the deceased was a pulmonary embolism; however, the medical testimony clearly left the question with the jury to decide whether the pulmonary embolism was wholly disassociated from the occurrence of May 5, 1947, or was caused by the injuries inflicted on the deceased on that day by the defendant.

In finding the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the jury must have found that the origin of the pulmonary embolism was the beating and "stomping" which the deceased received at the hands of the…