Stribling v. State

Summary

The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support Stribling's malice-murder conviction because the beating was the proximate cause of Thomas's death, and withdrawal of life support was a reasonably foreseeable consequence rather than an independent intervening cause. The court also held that the aggravated-battery and aggravated-assault convictions merged with the malice-murder and armed-robbery convictions, respectively, requiring those sentences to be vacated. The court affirmed the murder conviction and vacated the specified sentences without remanding.