State v. Hayes

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

An amended information filed January 2,1953, charged defendant, Jack Hayes, with violation of M. S. A. 619.15(3), which provides:

“Such homicide is manslaughter in the first degree when committed without a design to effect death:

“ (3) By shooting another with a gun or other firearm when resulting from carelessness in mistaking the person shot for a deer or other animal.”

The information charged that on November 15,1952, at the village of Fifty Lakes, Crow Wing county, Minnesota, defendant had committed the crime of manslaughter in the first degree as follows:

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