Proximate result definition
Proximate result phrase in R.C. 2903.04(A) means that, in order to commit involuntary manslaughter under this section, the defendant’s felonious acts not only resulted in the death of another but that the criminal act was a proximate cause of the death. * * * Jackson v. State (1920), 101 Ohio St. 152, 127 N.E. 870, paragraph one of the syllabus;
Proximate result means a consequence which proceeds naturally in the ordinary course of things from the cause. It is an ordinary and probable result of a certain act. Something that is a mere possibility is not sufficient to constitute a proximate result.)
Proximate result means that there must be such a natural, direct and continuous sequence between the act and the injury that it can reasonably be said that but for the act, the injury would not have occurred.