State v. Crabb

HEDRICK, Judge.

In his first assignment of error, defendant contends that the court erred in denying his motion to dismiss and submitting the charge of involuntary manslaughter to the jury. He presents a two-fold argument: that the State failed to prove that defendant’s driving was the proximate cause of Mitchell’s death and that there was insufficient evidence presented that the driving was done in a culpably negligent manner.

Involuntary manslaughter is the

unlawful and unintentional killing of another human being without malice and which proximately results from the commission of an unlawful…