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STATE v. BUCKHALTER

No. 2012-CA-00725-SCT.

119 So.3d 1015 (2013)

STATE of Mississippi v. Nina BUCKHALTER a/k/a Nina R. Buckhalter a/k/a Nina Rozanne Buckhalter.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 8, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the District Attorney, Fifteenth District by Lauren B. Harless , Douglas E. Miller , Haldon J. Kittrell , attorneys for appellant.

Robert B. McDuff , Jacob Wayne Howard , Jackson, Karl C. Hightower , Farah Diaz-Tello , attorneys for appellee.

EN BANC.

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. The Lamar County grand jury indicted Nina Buckhalter for culpable-negligence manslaughter after she gave birth to a stillborn baby girl. The circuit court dismissed the indictment, finding certain language in the manslaughter statute to be "vague and ambiguous," when applied to "a woman who has caused the miscarriage or stillbirth of her unborn child." The State

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