Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-41 (2026)

Homicide; overloading boat

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Any person navigating any boat or vessel for gain, who shall wilfully or negligently receive so many passengers, or such quantity of lading, that by means thereof such boat or vessel shall sink or overset, and thereby any human being shall be drowned or otherwise killed, shall be guilty of manslaughter.

Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (15); 1857, ch. 64, art. 179; 1871, § 2642; 1880, § 2890; 1892, § 1163; 1906, § 1241; Hemingway's 1917, § 971; 1930, § 999; 1942, § 2229.

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Cited in 1 case, 2015–2015 · leading case: Chunn v. State Ex Rel. Mississippi Dep't of Ins., 156 So. 3d 884 (Miss. 2015).

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Chunn v. State Ex Rel. Mississippi Dep't of Ins., 156 So. 3d 884 (Miss. 2015). · cites it 4× “12 Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-41 (Rev. 2014). 4 Fussenich, the plaintiff filed an equal-protection challenge to a Connecticut statute that barred all felony offenders from obtaining licenses as private detectives or security guards.”

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