Murphy v. People

The testimony leaves no douht that ■ the violence inflicted by the defendant upon the person of the deceased was the immediate cause of her death. The kicks with his boot upon her side and abdomen as she lay upon the ground, the bruises upon her body testifying to their force and violence, the ruptured liver beneath the bruises, and the three or four pints of blood in the abdominal cavity, as revealed by the autopsy, stand so closely connected and associated as to afford no room for reasonable doubt as to the cause of the death that so swiftly followed.

The defendant was indicted for murder.…