2011 Connecticut Code
Title 53a Penal Code
Chapter 952 Penal Code: Offenses
Sec. 53a-58. Criminally negligent homicide: Class A misdemeanor.

      Sec. 53a-58. Criminally negligent homicide: Class A misdemeanor. (a) A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person, except where the defendant caused such death by a motor vehicle.

      (b) Criminally negligent homicide is a class A misdemeanor.

      (1969, P.A. 828, S. 59.)

      Cited. 174 C. 89. Criminally negligent homicide is a lesser included offense of murder although the state of mind required is different. 180 C. 382. Cited. 181 C. 406. Cited. 185 C. 63. Cited. 187 C. 6. Cited. 195 C. 232. Cited. 202 C. 520; Id., 629. Cited. 204 C. 410; Id., 429. Cited. 212 C. 593. Cited. 213 C. 579. Cited. 216 C. 699. Cited. 223 C. 273. Cited. 226 C. 237. Cited. 227 C. 456. Cited. 228 C. 118, 127. Trial court improperly refused to instruct jury on this lesser included offense. Judgment of appellate court in State v. Ray, 30 CA 95, reversed. Id., 147. Cited. Id., 281. Cited. 238 C. 253.

      Cited. 17 CA 502; judgment reversed, see 213 C. 579. Cited. 24 CA 586. Cited. 26 CA 448. Cited. 28 CA 388; Id., 771. Cited. 30 CA 95; judgment reversed, see 228 C. 147; Id., 232. Cited. 32 CA 687. Cited. 35 CA 438.

      Cited. 40 CS 498.

      Subsec. (a):

      Cited. 201 C. 174. Cited. 214 C. 57. Cited. 231 C. 115.

      Cited. 34 CA 368; see also 233 C. 517.

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