CH. 13

Question 1

capital crime

Answer 1

A crime that is punishable by death.

Question 2

castle doctrine

Answer 2

when being attacked in one’s house, a person need not retreat before using deadly
force against the assailant.

Question 3

corpus delicti

Answer 3

A body on which a crime has been committed.

Question 4

euthanasia

Answer 4

The act of painlessly putting to death someone suffering from an incurable disease,
as an act of mercy.

Question 5

e. excusable homicide & justifiable homicide

Answer 5

The taking of a human life when a valid excuse exists.

Question 6

f. felon

Answer 6

A person who commits a felony.

Question 7

felonious homicide

Answer 7

Homicide done with the intent to commit a felony.

Question 8

felony murder

Answer 8

Murder committed while in the commission or attempted commission of a felony.

Question 9

feticide

Answer 9

Killing a fetus in a womb—abortion

Question 10

first-degree murder

Answer 10

Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or while in the commission of a crime punishable by life in prison.

Question 11

fratricide

Answer 11

Killing one’s brother.

Question 12

genocide

Answer 12

Killing a racial or political group.

Question 13

homicide

Answer 13

The killing of a human being by a human being.

Question 14

imminent danger

Answer 14

The situation in which an unlawful attack is just about to happen.

Question 15

infanticide

Answer 15

Killing an infant soon after birth.

Question 16

involuntary manslaughter

Answer 16

The unintentional killing of another while in the commission of an unlawful act or
while in the commission of a reckless act.

Question 17

malice aforethought

Answer 17

Evil intent; that state of mind that is reckless of law and of the legal rights of others.

Question 18

matricide

Answer 18

Killing one’s mother.

Question 19

manslaughter

Answer 19

The unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought.

Question 20

murder

Answer 20

The unlawful killing of a human being by another with malice aforethought.

Question 21

patricide

Answer 21

Killing one’s father

Question 22

proximate cause

Answer 22

The dominant cause that produces an injury or death.

Question 23

right-to-die laws

Answer 23

Laws that allow dying people to refuse extraordinary treatment that would prolong
life.

Question 24

second-degree murder

Answer 24

Murder that is not found to be in the first degree.

Question 25

self-defense

Answer 25

A valid excuse for the use of force in resisting attack, especially for killing an assail
ant.

Question 26

sororicide

Answer 26

Killing one’s sister.

Question 27

suicide

Answer 27

Killing oneself.

Question 28

uxoricide

Answer 28

Killing one’s wife.

Question 29

viable

Answer 29

Having the appearance of being able to live.

Question 30

voluntary manslaughter

Answer 30

The unlawful killing of another without malice when an intention to kill exists, but
provoked by the violence of sudden passion.

Question 31

year-and-a-day rule

Answer 31

death must have occurred within a year and a day after the blow occurred for a de
fendant to be convicted of homicide.