The involuntary killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such human being is engaged in the commission of a trespass or other injury to private rights or property, or is engaged in an attempt to commit such injury, shall be manslaughter.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 3 (13); 1857, ch. 64, art. 177; 1871, § 2640; 1880, § 2888; 1892, § 1161; 1906, § 1239; Hemingway's 1917, § 969; 1930, § 997; 1942, § 2227.
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