MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 97-3-33. Killing trespasser involuntarily.

The involuntary killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such human being is engaged in the commission of a trespass or other injury to private rights or property, or is engaged in an attempt to commit such injury, shall be manslaughter.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (13); 1857, ch. 64, art. 177; 1871, Sec. 2640; 1880, Sec. 2888; 1892, Sec. 1161; 1906, Sec. 1239; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 969; 1930, Sec. 997; 1942, Sec. 2227.


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