Homicide Ch. 13

Question 1

Define homicide

Answer 1

Is the killing of a human being by another human being. (The term comes from the Latin Homo (man) and cidere (to kill))

Question 2

What are the forms of homicide

Answer 2

Feticide, Fratricide, Genocide. Infanticide, Matricide, Patricide, Sororicide, suicide, Uxoricide, and Mariticide

Question 3

Define Feticide

Answer 3

Killing a fetus in the womb

Question 4

Define Fratricide

Answer 4

Killing one’s brother

Question 5

Define Infanticide

Answer 5

Killing a child soon after birth

Question 6

Define Matricide

Answer 6

Killing one’s mother

Question 7

Define Sororicide

Answer 7

Killing one sister

Question 8

Define Uxoricide

Answer 8

Killing one’s wife

Question 9

Define Mariticide

Answer 9

Killing one’s husband

Question 10

Define Adjustable justifiable homicide (excusable homicide)

Answer 10

Is the taking of human life when a legal justification exists

Question 11

Justifiable homicide includes

Answer 11

Legal execution of murderers, the killing of others during battle, the killing of another in self-defense

Question 12

Unborn children modern law

Answer 12

Is homicide to kill an unborn child in its mother’s womb the child is viable (having a reasonable capacity to live outside the womb)

Question 13

Year and a day rule modern laws

Answer 13

Abolished in many states, as medical advances can prolong life of victims of violence and yet they might die (as a proximate cause of the attack)

Question 14

Define Corpus Delicti

Answer 14

(The body on which a crime has been committed) must be accounted for convict someone of homicide

Question 15

Term Corpus Delicti also refers to

Answer 15

All the elements that must be proved in a particular crime

Question 16

Define Felonious homicide

Answer 16

A criminal (wrongful) homicide

Question 17

Felonious homicide is divided into 2 categories

Answer 17

1. Murder (capital crime (punishable by death).)

2. Manslaughter

Question 18

Define murder

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Define malice aforethought

Answer 19

Is evil intent, historically referred to as deprived state of mind

Question 20

Suicide is not a crime, but actions related to suicide can be criminal

Answer 20

1. Counseling another to commit suicide
2. Assist another in suicide
3. Euthanasia
4. Physician-assisted suicide
5. Right to die laws

Question 21

What are the 3 ways first-degree murder can be committed

Answer 21

1. With deliberation premeditated (considered beforehand) malice aforethought
2. With extreme atrocity or cruelty
3. While in commission or attempted commission of certain felonies (felony murder)

Question 22

Define premeditated malice aforethought

Answer 22

Thinking over, deliberately on, and weighting in the mind beforehand

Question 23

Second-degree murder could be

Answer 23

1. A murder not found to be 1st degree
2. Murder malice was implied (not express)
3. Murder without premeditation or deliberation

Question 24

Define manslaughter

Answer 24

Unlawful killing of a human by another without malice aforethought

Question 25

What are the 3 types of manslaughter

Answer 25

1. Voluntary manslaughter
2. Adequate provocation
3. Involuntary manslaughter

Question 26

Define voluntary manslaughter

Answer 26

Intent to kill is caused by violence from sudden passion occasioned by adequate provocation

Question 27

Define Involuntary manslaughter

Answer 27

Unintentionally killing of another while in commission of an unlawful act that is not a felony or in the commission of a wanton or reckless act