in the Matter of the Marriage of Spencer Harrison Cote and Dawn Jannise Cote and in the Interest of K.G.C., a Child

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• involuntary manslaughter judgment reversed where evidence would at most support a conclusion that the defendant was negligent and thus “it could not have been found properly that the discharge of the gun was other than accidental”
• “It is settled in cases of homicide that one who wantonly or recklessly does an act that results in the death of a human being is guilty of manslaughter although he did not contemplate such a result”
• manslaughter judgment reversed where “pertinent evidence would not warrant the jury in finding that the defendant knew or ought to have known that the gun was loaded,” and the evidence would not support a finding that the discharge of the gun was other than accidental
• no evidence that defendant knew gun was loaded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).