97-3-39 - Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death.
§ 97-3-39. Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death.
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.
Sources: 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, § 2231.