Legal Opinion
State v. Willis
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided October 5, 1982No. 5785PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NEAL, Judge.
This appeal has been brought by the State challenging the trial court’s dismissal of Count II of the grand jury indictment against the defendant, Richard Lamar Willis, charging him with vehicular homicide.
The only issue in this case is whether an unborn viable fetus is a human being for purposes of the New Mexico Vehicular homicide statute, § 66-8-101, N.M.S.A. 1978 (1982 Cum.Supp.).
As Judge Wood states in his specially concurring opinion: the killing of a human being for which § 66-8-101, supra, provides a punishment is “homicide” by vehicle. The killing of a fetus, under…
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