2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 952 - Penal Code: Offenses
Section 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. 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. Defendant’s diminished mental capacity did not prevent her from forming the mental state associated with criminally negligent homicide since the standard is that of the reasonably prudent person. 131 CA 65.
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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