The unlawful killing of a human being with malice.
What is murder?
100
Murder committed deliberately with malice aforethought, that is, with premeditation.
What is first-degree murder?
100
Real, tangible, or clear evidence of fact or occurrence.
What is direct evidence?
100
Literally "the acts of the thing," the acts or words through which an event speaks.
What is Reg gestae theory?
100
The act of causing death to end pain and distress.
What is euthanasia?
200
The killing of a human being.
What is homicide?
200
A defendant's plan to injure another.
What is intent to do serious bodily harm?
200
A statement, other than one made while testifying at trial, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted. It is not admissible.
What hearsay?
200
A document in which a person sets forth directions regarding medical treatment to be given if she becomes unable to participate in decisions regarding her health care.
What is living will?
200
The murder of a newborn or a very young child.
What is infanticide?
300
The expression for a mental state on the part of a criminal defendant adequate in law to reduce the crime from murder to manslaughter.
What is heat of passion?
300
The crime of causing the death of a person by negligent or reckless conduct.
What is criminal negligence manslaughter?
300
The doctrine that if a defendant who intends to injure one person unintentionally harms another, the intent is transferred to the person who is unintentionally harmed.
What is transferred intent?
300
Use of a deadly weapon is proof of intent to kill.
What is deadly weapon doctrine?
300
The plan, course, or means a person conceives to take another's life.
What is intent to kill?
400
An intent to kill or injure, or deliberate commission of a dangerous or deadly act.
What is malice aforethougt?
400
The rule that a death occurring by accident or chance during the course of the commission of a felony is first-degree murder.
What is felony murder rule?
400
Evidence that proves a fct by inference. It seldom carries the weight of direct evidence.
What is circumstantial evidence?
400
The unintentional killing of a human being by a person engaged in doing some unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in doing some lawful act in a manner tending to cause death or great bodily injury.
What is involuntary manslaughter?
400
A statement made by an individual who believed death is imminent to explain the circumstances of his condition.
What is dying declaration?
500
Where the defendant committed a crime that resulted in the death of a person.
What is unlawful act manslaughter?
500
A homicide committed with the intent to kill, but without deliberation, premeditation, or malice.
What is voluntary manslaughter?
500
In ancient England, compensation paid to a family group if a member of that family was killed or suffered severe injury; compensation for minor injuries; fine apyable to a lord.
What is wergild, bot, wite?
500
Those killings committed out of duty with no criminal intent.
What is justifiable homicide?
500
The agreement by two or more people to commit a crime. it requires at least one overt act and is punished as if the parties accomplished the objective of their agreement.