Mississippi Manslaughter Laws

Manslaughter is causing the death of another person under any of the following circumstances:

• As a result of culpable negligence
• While committing or attempting to commit any crime or misdemeanor
• While committing or attempting to commit a felony (except for the felonies of rape, kidnapping, burglary, arson, robbery, sexual battery, unnatural intercourse with a child under 12 years of age, nonconsensual unnatural intercourse with a person, or felonious abuse and/or battery of a child, all of which would constitute murder)
• The unnecessary killing of a perpetrator while resisting a crime or after his or her failed attempts at committing the crime
• Killing a trespasser or person who is otherwise invading or attempting to invade one's private rights or property
• Murder from sudden provocation while in the "heat of passion"
• While intoxicated and as a result of performing a surgical operation or administering or causing the administration of a poison, drug, or other medicine
• As a for-profit boat or vessel operator who willfully or negligently overloads a boat with passengers and causes them to drown or otherwise die
• As a train or steamboat captain, engineer, or other person in charge who, through ignorance or gross neglect, causes a boiler to burst or a car to run off track
• As an owner of a dangerous animal, which is not confined or escapes, and kills another person who took reasonable caution to avoid the animal

Aiding suicide is willfully advising, encouraging, or assisting a suicide

Manslaughter is a felony punishable by up to 1 year in the county jail, 2-20 years in the penitentiary, and at least $500 in fines.

Aiding suicide is a felony punishable by up to 1 year in the county jail, up to 10 years in the penitentiary, and up to $1,000 in fines.