Court Opinion

ID: 3513651
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 22:24:39.691938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:17:51.473730
License: Public Domain

The evidence is wholly insufficient to support a finding by the jury that the death of Dan Calcott, Jr., was caused by an act of the appellant so grossly negligent "as to be tantamount to a wanton disregard of, or utter indifference to, the safety of human life." Smith v. State, 197 Miss. 802, 20 So. 2d 701, 706, 161 A.L.R. 1. Consequently the court below should have granted the request of appellant for a verdict of not guilty.
Reversed, and the appellant discharged. *Page 207