Miss. Code § 97-3-39

Current through the 2024 Regular Session

Section 97-3-39 - Homicide; drunken doctor, etc., unintentionally causing death

If any physician or other person, while in a state of intoxication, shall, without a design to effect death, administer or cause to be administered, any poison, drug, or other medicine, or shall perform any surgical operation on another, which shall cause the death of such other person, he shall be guilty of manslaughter.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (17); 1857, ch. 64, art. 181; 1871, § 2644; 1880, § 1892, § 1165; 1906, § 1243; Hemingway's 1917, § 973; 1930, § 1001; 1942, § 2231.