Champlain v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, because the charging instrument did not assert a battery accomplished the killing, the trial court did not err in declining to give an involuntary manslaughter instruction
• holding that involuntary manslaughter was not a factually included lesser offense of the charged crime of murder because the charging information did not assert a battery but merely alleged that defendant knowingly killed the victim
• holding that involuntary manslaughter was not a factually included lesser offense of the charged crime of murder because the charging information did not assert a battery but merely alleged that the defendant knowingly killed the victim
• holding “[b]ecause the information did not assert a battery, involuntary manslaughter in this case was not a factually included lesser offense” and the trial court did not err in refusing to give the instruction
• observing that where the information alleged only that defendant “did knowingly kill another human being,” the information specifically did not assert a battery, and therefore, involuntary manslaughter was not a factually included lesser offense of murder
• observing a shooting “can in some situations be classified as a battery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).