... liability, causation, is the link between the intent, the act, and the harm. In other words, the intended or criminally negligent act must havebeen the direct cause of the death or injury. If ... loaded pistol at B and pulls the trigger with the intent to kill B and B is killed, there is little doubt that the firingof the gun was the direct cause of B’s death. The key here is that without ... cause, there is, generally speaking, no crime.Corpus delicti, literally the “body of the crime,” is the proof that loss or injury oc-curred as the result of someone’s criminal conduct. The identity...