Criminal Law Chapter 7

Homicide prosecutions cannot take place if the victim did not die within three days from the time the fatal act occurred.

False

_______ is the killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another human being.

Homicide

Some state laws describe a special category of ________ called criminally negligent homicide.

Involuntary manslaughter

Malice aforethought is an unjustifiable, inexcusable, and unmitigated person-endangering state of mind

True

Ray is employed by the state of Texas to execute prisoners who have been sentenced to death. When Ray executes a prisoner, he has committed homicide.

True

The Uniform Determination of Death Act provides that a person without ________ is dead

a heartbeat or respiration or evidence of brain activity

A death that is the result of a purposeful human act lawfully undertaken in the reasonable belief that no harm would result is

an accidental killing.

Jack Kevorkian is associated with:

assisted suicide

Many states recognize three types of ________ homicide: 1) murder, 2) manslaughter, and 3) negligent homicide.

criminal

Unjustifiable conduct that is extremely negligent and results in the death of a human being is sometimes called

depraved heart murder

Ray is driving down the street obeying all the traffic laws. Bob suddenly darts out in front of Ray's car. Ray's car hits and kills Bob. Ray has committed

excusable homicide

_______ is willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing.

first degree murder

In cases of ________, the killing is unintentional.

involuntary manslaughter

Bob stabs Ray with a knife, hollering that he will kill Ray. Ray manages to pull a gun out of his pocket and shoot and kill Bob before Bob can stab Ray a second time. Ray has committed:

justifiable homicide.

Driving 100 miles per hour in a school zone while young children are present could establish______

malice

_______ is a legal term that refers to the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or legal excuse

malice

The elements of the crime of ________ are: 1) an unlawful killing, 2) of a human being, 3) without malice

manslaughter

At early common law, suicide was

murder

The elements of the crime of ________ are: 1) an unlawful killing, 2) of a human being, 3) with malice.

murder

_________ murder is murder in which the intent to kill is formed pursuant to reflection, rather than as a result of a sudden impulse or heat of passion.

premeditated

________ is the act of deliberating or meditating upon, or planning, a course of action

premeditation

________ can be a killing committed without lawful justification, wherein the defendant acted under a sudden and intense passion resulting from adequate provocation.

voluntary manslaughter