State v. Wright

The respondent was indicted for manslaughter. At the trial, the prosecution relied upon involuntary manslaughter and offered evidence to prove that the respondent, while on a hunting trip, negligently shot the deceased as he rode by on horseback.

Criminality is not predicated upon mere negligence necessary to impose civil liability but upon that degree of negligence or carelessness which is denominated gross or culpable. State v. Pond, 125 Me., 453; Fitzgerald v. State, 112 Ala., 39; People v. Adams, 289 Ill., 339, 345; Com. v. Pierce, 138 Mass., 165; Aiken v. Street Railway, 184 Mass., 271;…