(1) Reckless homicide is a reckless killing of another.
(2) Reckless homicide is a Class D felony.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-215
Reckless homicide
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case State v. Watkins (2012)
Most recently applied in 948 F. Supp. 2d 826 - Moore v. Steward (June 2013)
Acts 1993, ch. 306, § 2.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.