The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any crime or misdemeanor not amounting to felony, or in the attempt to commit any crime or misdemeanor, where such killing would be murder at common law, shall be manslaughter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-29
Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Wells v. State (1974)
Most recently applied in Rickie Omar Smith v. State of Mississippi (August 2018)
Codes, 1880, § 2881; 1892, § 1155; 1906, § 1233; Hemingway’s 1917, § 963; 1930, 991; 1942, § 2221.
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