(1) Criminally negligent conduct that results in death constitutes criminally negligent homicide.
(2) Criminally negligent homicide is a Class E felony.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-212
Criminally negligent homicide
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case United States v. Gomez-Leon (2008)
Most recently applied in 948 F. Supp. 2d 826 - Moore v. Steward (June 2013)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; T.C.A., § 39-13-208; Acts 1990, ch. 1038, § 4.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.