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.