Phillips v. State

The appellant, Charles Gordon Phillips, was indicted by the grand jury of Lafayette County, Mississippi, on a charge of involuntary manslaughter by culpable negligence.1 He was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve a term of twelve years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary with six years suspended. From that conviction and sentence, Phillips prosecutes this appeal. We reverse and discharge appellant.

We would first point out that there is not a scintilla of evidence in this record, nor does the state suggest, that Phillips intentionally killed Christina Ann Hegler. To the contrary, the…