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manslaughter
Matched in: Term manslaughter
Manslaughter
Matched in: Term Manslaughter
Manslaughter
Matched in: Term Manslaughter
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involuntary manslaughter
Matched in: Term involuntary manslaughter
misdemeanor-manslaughter
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voluntary manslaughter
Matched in: Term voluntary manslaughter
murder
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 a
Murder
greater felony includes a less, a person indicted for murder may be (and very frequently is) convicted of manslaughter. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the death of her newly-born child shall
homicide
1 : a person who kills another 2 : the killing of one human being by another compare manslaughter, murder criminal homicide : homicide committed by a person with a criminal state of mind (as intentionally, with
Homicide
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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