If any physician or other person, while in a state of intoxication, shall, without a design to effect death, administer or cause to be administered, any poison, drug, or other medicine, or shall perform any surgical operation on another, which shall cause the death of such other person, he shall be guilty of manslaughter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-39
Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 568 So. 2d 725 - MISS. EMPLOYMENT SEC. COM'N v. Martin (1990)
Most recently applied in 568 So. 2d 725 - MISS. EMPLOYMENT SEC. COM'N v. Martin (October 1990)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (17); 1857, ch. 64, art. 181; 1871, § 2644; 1880, § 1892, § 1165; 1906, § 1243; Hemingway’s 1917, § 973; 1930, § 1001; 1942, §…
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