97-3-29 - Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor.
§ 97-3-29. Homicide; killing while committing a misdemeanor.
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.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 2881; 1892, § 1155; 1906, § 1233; Hemingway's 1917, § 963; 1930, 991; 1942, § 2221.