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HYNUM v. STATE

No. 39490.

222 Miss. 817 (1955)

77 So.2d 313

HYNUM v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 24, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.M. Watkins, Port Gibson, for appellant.

Wm. E. Cresswell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

HOLMES, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Claiborne County convicting the appellant of manslaughter and sentencing him to serve a term of two years in the State penitentiary. The prosecution is under Section 2232 of the Mississippi Code of 1942, providing that the killing of a human being through culpable negligence shall be manslaughter.

(Hn 1) The State charged that the appellant, through culpable negligence in the...

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