[mamelukesabre]

If you fired accidentally, you are negligent. And therefore guilty.

[bvw]

Depends on the situation. Say a Korean shopkeeper pulls out a shotgun when a gang of hoods is milling about the outside of his store in a threatening way. Say he or his wife "dissed" one of them earlier. The gun accidentally goes off, as one of the hoods makes a move for it. What say you then?

Or if the hoods were in the process of robbing him, and the gun accidentally goes off? What then?

[spunkets]

"If you fired accidentally, you are negligent. And therefore guilty."

Mr White was forced to act in a way he wasn't prepared to under severe duress, in the middle of the night, at his home and on his premises, and to a mob intent on committing a Class C felony. Any accidents that Mr White may have caused are the responsibility of those punks in the mob that forced White's actions in the first place.

[El Gato]

If you fired accidentally, you are negligent. And therefore guilty.

But not generally of manslaughter, except involuntary manslaughter. Was manslaughter the original charge?