Felonious Homicide - Law Dictionary Search Results
felonious homicide
Matched in: Term felonious homicide
homicide
Matched in: Term homicide
Felonious
Matched in: Term Felonious
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murder
life or during the course of a serious felony (as robbery or rape) compare cold blood, cooling time, homicide, manslaughter NOTE: Self-defense, necessity, and lack of capacity for criminal responsibility (as because of insanity) are defenses to
Justifiable homicide
Matched in: Term Justifiable homicide
Homicide
Matched in: Term Homicide
manslaughter
manslaughter : the unlawful killing of a human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard
Prerogative of mercy
in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but
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