Crimes Against The Person and Against Life
~ Planning to take another life
What Is Premeditation?
Doing of a Criminal Act.
What is Actus Reus?
A process where one action make another thing happen.
What Is Causation?
The most serious form of murder, punished by death or life without parole.
What is Capital Murder?
A person that makes contact or use "Force or Violence" on another person.
What is Battery?
Type of Killing that is not defensive or backed up by any law.
What Is Unlawful Killing
Knowingly Committing the Crime.
What Is Men's Rea?
Ensures that each event is linked with its prior event to form a connected chin of cause.
What Is Factual Cause?
Killing of another without any evil intent.
What Is Manslaughter?
When a person take a substantial step towards causing injury on another from behind or with stealth.
What is Attempted Battery?
~ Seriously hurt someone knowing it would cause death
~ Acted with extreme disregard of human life
What Is Malice Aforethought?
A required Element for ALL CRIMES.
What is Actus Reus and Mens Rea?
A foreseeable reason something has happened.
What Is Proximate Cause?
Acts with criminal negligence by creating a highly unreasonable risk of death that kill's the victims or commits misdemeanor manslaughter by committing an unlawful act not amounting to a felony. pg. 150
What is Involuntary Manslaughter?
A person causing harm to another that puts the other person in the hospital is guilty of:_______
What Is Aggravated Assault?
"Any Killing during commission or attempted commission of a felony is automatically elevated to Murder." pg. 132
What is The Felony Murder Rule?
Failure to act when one has a legal duty to do something
What Is Omission?
When Two Or More causes happen at the same time, and each one help produce the result.
What Is Concurrent Causation?
When a person drives while under the influence, drives negligently, and causes someone’s death, even though they did not intend to kill.
What is Vehicular Homicide?
Hurting someone without causing serious injury is guilty of: ________
What Is Simple Assault?