Vigil v. State

TAYLOR, Justice.

Keith Vigil (Vigil) appeals his conviction for involuntary manslaughter following the death of a nineteen-month-old infant in his care. Although Vigil raises a number of issues, our primary focus involves one obsolete jury instruction as derived from the Wyoming Pattern Jury Instructions-Criminal as published in 1978. We reverse and remand because the jury instruction misstated the essential elements of the crime of involuntary manslaughter as presently enacted by the Wyoming State Legislature.

Vigil raises these issues:

I. Whether the district court committed plain error by…