The Attorney General is pleased that the court rejected the defendants' claim that the legal theory of misdemeanor manslaughter was somehow flawed.
Quotes about manslaughter (14 Quotes)
If he didn't believe it was necessary, then it's murder, ... If that belief was not reasonable, the crime is manslaughter. Mr. Reynolds did not believe deadly force was necessary to terminate a criminal trespass. He chose to execute Janet Bacon. The evidence compels a murder verdict.
There was 25 years of provocation. I'm not contending this homicide was justified. It was a crime. He offered to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
The grandmother, Annie Williams, had been charged by us with manslaughter, but the grand jury is returned now with a charge of murder in the first degree.
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling.
Right now there are 28 inmates on work-release and 247 inmates in community work programs who were convicted of murder, manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide,
These are considerations that have been made clear to us already and were taken into consideration when we reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter.
I did, ... But it could be manslaughter, not murder. It's not necessarily murder. But it doesn't bother me what you call it. I know what it is. This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.
There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.
If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter.
For this reason did We prescribe to the children of Israel that whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men and certainly Our apostles came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them certainly act extravagantly in the land.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples.