State v. Fournier

EAGLES, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the trial court committed reversible error in submitting involuntary manslaughter as a possible verdict, because there was no evidence presented to support its submission. It was error and defendant’s conviction must be reversed and defendant discharged.

Involuntary manslaughter has been defined by our Supreme Court as “the unintentional killing of a human being without either express or implied malice (1) by some unlawful act not amounting to a felony or naturally dangerous to human life, or (2) by an act or omission constituting…