State v. Morgan

Daniel Morgan appeals his conviction of vehicular homicide. He contends the trial court erred by instructing the jury that: (1) a vehicular homicide conviction requires a causal connection between Morgan’s driving and the death, rather than his intoxication and the death; and (2) Morgan’s driving must be “a” proximate cause of the death, rather than “the” proximate cause as alleged in the State’s charging document. But causation between intoxication and death is not an element of vehicular homicide. And while an instruction requiring the driving to be “a” proximate cause, rather than “the”…