Originally Posted by Stompy

Accidental death 99% of the time falls into manslaughter.

The main thing with manslaughter is murder without malice or intent to cause harm while doing something illegal (like trespassing), ...

Most of the time, unless there's a dire reason to do otherwise, a person *will* serve time for the most ridiculous accidents. Just happens to be a blunder of our justice system that we unfortunately have to deal with, but... it's the way things are for *everyone*.

Now... negligence while hunting is on a completely different level, and a bit more serious, than "whoops, my tire blew out and I killed your kid," or, "he broke into my house, so I shot at him to protect my family." There are *always* charges involved...