97-3-33 - Killing trespasser involuntarily. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 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, § 2640; 1880, § 2888; 1892, § 1161; 1906, § 1239; Hemingway's 1917, § 969; 1930, § 997; 1942, § 2227.