Legal Opinion
People v. Cable
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 30, 1984PublishedCited by 389 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Kaye, J.
In the two appeals before us, elderly victims of crime — an attempted purse-snatching, and a robbery and burglary — some days after these incidents, succumbed to heart attacks, having shown no immediate signs of heart trouble. The central issue is whether there was sufficient proof to support the fact-finders’ determinations that the *276stress of the incidents was a cause of the fatalities. Concluding that there was sufficient evidence of causal connection, we affirm the adjudication of Anthony M. for juvenile delinquency based on manslaughter, and we reverse the…
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