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- Title: State v. Roy Rounds
- Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 04, 1932
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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On June 20, 1930, the respondent and one Allen Thompson engaged in a fist fight at the entrance to the barn on the home premises of the respondent in Jericho. The blows struck by respondent caused severe injuries to Thompsons face, including the fracture of the left jaw and the fracture of several other facial bones. The next day Thompson was taken to the Fanny Allen Hospital in Winooski for treatment, and he remained there until he died on July 16, 1930. Early in the morning of July 15, Thompson was found lying upon the floor of his room in the hospital, and later the same day discovery was first made that three of his ribs on the left side were fractured. One of the fractured ribs punctured the pleural cavity which contained streptococcic pus and caused the bacteria to enter the blood stream. The terminal cause of death was the pus in the pleural cavity admitted to the blood by the broken rib puncturing the cavity. The respondent was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. By motion for a directed verdict, and also by motion to set the verdict aside, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict on the following grounds: (1) That, since the evidence adduced by the State showed that respondent was first assaulted, there was not in the case sufficient evidence to warrant the jury in finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the acts of the respondent were not done in self-defense; and (2) that the evidence does not justify the finding and Conclusion of the jury that the death of Thompson resulted from any act of the respondent, and especially from any unjustified blow by the respondent; but that the evidence showed that his death was produced by an intervening efficient cause due to accident and mischance. Upon the overruling of these motions, the questions were saved for review by proper exceptions.