In 1877, the Texas Rangers found themselves on the outlaw trail, pursuing John Wesley Hardin. Hardin, who had killed Charles Webb, a deputy sheriff in Brown County in 1874, left the state when he began to be relentlessly pursued.
So in a medical examinerâs report homicide just means one person intentionally did something that led to the death of someone else. It doesnât mean the death was intentional and it doesn't mean it was a crime. Criminally negligent homicide, on the other hand, is a class E felony in New York State.
Medical examiners are required to be physicians and are appointed to their position, whereas coroners are elected officials and are not required to be a physician to fill that role. Therefore, the coroner role is not as involved in the science and forensics of a death, as a medical examiner would be.