Test 1 - Ch 6 Book

Question 1

the killing of a human being

Answer 1

homicide

Question 2

at common law, the unlawful killing of one person by another malice aforethought (premeditation)

Answer 2

murder

Question 3

the crime of unlawfully killing another person without malice

Answer 3

manslaughter

Question 4

the mental predetermination to commit an illegal act

Answer 4

malice aforethought

Question 5

a violent and uncontrollable rage resulting from a provocation that would cause such a response by a reasonable person

Answer 5

heat of passion

Question 6

the intentional taking of a person’s own life

Answer 6

suicide

Question 7

deliberate decision or plan to commit a crime

Answer 7

premeditation

Question 8

the intentional killing of a human without malice or premeditation and usually occurring during a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion

Answer 8

voluntary manslaughter

Question 9

the unintentional killing of another person as the result of gross or wanton negligence

Answer 9

involuntary manslaughter

Question 10

killing another in self-defense or defense of others when there is serious danger of death or great bodily harm to self or others or when authorized by law

Answer 10

justifiable homicide

Question 11

a death caused by accident or misfortune

Answer 11

excusable homicide

Question 12

the commission of suicide with the aid of a physician

Answer 12

doctor-assisted suicide

Question 13

controversial “right” to terminate one’s own life under certain circumstances

Answer 13

right to die

Question 14

conduct that prompts another person to react through criminal conduct

Answer 14

provocation

Question 15

the highest degree of unlawful homicide, usually defined as “an unlawful act committed with the premeditated intent to take the life of a human being.”

Answer 15

first-degree murder

Question 16

a homicide committed during the court of committed another felony other than murder (armed robbery). The felonious act substitutes for the malice aforethought ordinarily required in murder.

Answer 16

felony murder

Question 17

a killing perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual

Answer 17

second-degree murder

Question 18

a serious moral deficiency; a high level of malice often linked to second-degree murder

Answer 18

depraved mind or heart

Question 19

a homicide resulting from the unlawful and negligent operation of a motor vehicle

Answer 19

vehicular homicide

Question 20

“the body of the crime” The material thing upon which a crime has been committed

Answer 20

corpus delicti

Question 21

the cause that is nearest to a given effect in a casual relationship

Answer 21

proximate cause

Question 22

the complete cessation of activity of the central nervous system

Answer 22

brain death

Question 23

the act of aiding or assisting a person to take his or her life. An offense in some jurisdiction

Answer 23

assisted suicide

Question 24

the intentional termination of a pregnancy

Answer 24

abortion

Question 25

that point in pregnancy at which the fetus is capable of prolonged life outside the mother’s womb

Answer 25

fetal viability

Question 26

A method of abortion in which the fetus is partially delivered before it’s life is terminated and it is removed from the mother’s body

Answer 26

partial-birth abortion