John Theodore Hancock v. United States
HabeasCorpus
Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe-
ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply
tracking the statutory language without informing the ju ry the -
death "results from" the offense only if the death would not have
occurred but-for the offense, satisfy the standard announced by
this Court in Burrage v. United States?
Can a jury determine that. a death resulted from an offense
without receiving proof.that the offense provided an independent cause of death?
Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory language without informing the jury the death 'results from' the offense only if the death would not have occurred but-for the offense satisfies the standard announced by this Court in Burrage v. United States