JAIDYN LESKIE

Legal Studies ELEMENTS OF MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER All crimes involve a wrongful act and a guilty mind. This is expressed in the official definition of murder as unlawfully kills and malice aforethought. The degree of malice determines weather it is murder or manslaughter. Generally, murder includes the intent to kill or harm seriously with reckless indifference. Manslaughter includes the intent to harm that results in death. This is involuntary manslaughter. Voluntary manslaughter would occur if …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

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