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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-45

Homicide; owner of dangerous animal

Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (14); 1857, ch. 64, art. 178; 1871, § 2641; 1880, § 2889; 1892, § 1162; 1906, § 1240; Hemingway’s 1917, § 970; 1930, § 998; 19…

If the owner of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensity, wilfully suffer it to go at large, or shall keep it without ordinary care, and such animal, while so at large, or not confined, kill any human being who shall have taken reasonable precautions to avoid the animal, such owner shall be guilty of manslaughter.

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