Involuntary Manslaughter - Law Dictionary Search Results
involuntary manslaughter
Matched in: Term involuntary manslaughter
manslaughter
Matched in: Term manslaughter
homicide
a person's criminally negligent act reckless homicide : homicide caused by a person's reckless acts NOTE: In Illinois, involuntary manslaughter committed by use of a motor vehicle is called reckless homicide. ve·hic·u·lar homicide [vē-hi-kyə-lər-] : homicide committed by
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reckless
reasonable person would exercise in like circumstances [a state of mind may be inferred from conduct] see also involuntary manslaughter at manslaughter reckless homicide at homicide, recklessness compare careless reck·less·ly adv
cooling time
cooling time was sufficient or reasonable, a defendant may not use provocation to reduce a murder charge to involuntary manslaughter.
Manslaughter
Matched in: Term Manslaughter
Homicide
Voluntary, where a man doing an unlawful act, not amounting to felony, by accident kills another; or (b) Involuntary, where, upon a sudden quarrel, two persons fight, and one of them kills the other; or where a … intention of hurt, by accident kills another; but if death ensue from any unlawful act, the offence is manslaughter, and not misadventure. (b) Se defendendo, as where a man kills another upon a sudden encounter in his
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