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Reckless

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Heedless, careless, rash, indifleront to consequences. Kansas City, M. & P>.

R. Co. v. Crocker, 95 Ala. 412, 11 South. 262.

It implies heedlessness and indifference.

Lake Shore & M. S. R. Co. v. Bodemer, 139 111. 596, 29 N. E. 692, 32 Am. St. Rep. 218.

Reckless indifference as to the consequences of a criminal act may, no doubt, be characterized as malice. But heedlessness is not malice, and neither of them surely amounts to malice aforethought; Odgers, C. L. 270.