# Brown v. State

> Mississippi Supreme Court · May 26, 1947 · 202 Miss. 202

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3513651

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown v. State.
- **Court:** Mississippi Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 26, 1947
- **Citations:** 202 Miss. 202; 30 So. 2d 802; 1947 Miss. LEXIS 259
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Smith
- **Judges:** Smith
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

*206
Sydney Smith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The evidence is wholly insufficient to support a finding by the jury that the death of Dan Calcott, Jr., was caused by an act of the appellant so grossly negligent “as to be tantamount to a wanton disregard of, or utter indifference to, the safety of human life.” Smith v. State, 197 Miss. 802 , 20 So. (2d) 701, 706 , 161 A. L. R. 1. Consequently the court below should have granted the request of appellant for a verdict of not guilty.
Reversed, and the appellant discharged.

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