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14-1705. Negligent arson; "causation"; defined.

            For you to find that the [death]1 [injury] [damage] [destruction] in this case was "caused" by the conduct of the defendant, you must find that the [death]1 [injury] [damage] [destruction] was an actual result of the conduct of the defendant and that the natural sequence of events from the defendant's act to the resulting [death]1 [injury] [damage] [destruction] was not interrupted by any other intervening cause.

 

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