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202 Miss. 202

30 So.2d 802

Brown v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 26, 1947

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1947-05-26

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1960

2 state decisions

Relies on Smith v. State

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Decided 1947-05-26

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*206 Sydney Smith, C. J.,

¶1 delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2 The evidence is wholly insufficient to support a finding by the jury that the death of Dan Calcott, Jr., was caused by an act of the appellant so grossly negligent “as to be tantamount to a wanton disregard of, or utter indifference to, the safety of human life.” Smith v. State, 197 Miss. 802, 20 So. (2d) 701, 706, 161 A. L. R. 1. Consequently the court below should have granted the request of appellant for a verdict of not guilty.

¶3 Reversed, and the appellant discharged.

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