LAW230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indictable Offence, Mens Rea, Summary Offence
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Offences against the rights of persons: 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, attempted murder, fails to provide necessities of life, abandoning a child, indignity to a dead body. Homicide (222: homicide is when a person directly or indirectly causes death to a human being (all death, including accidents, homicide can be culpable (intentional) or no culpable (unintentional) A person commits non-culpable (unintentional) homicide when they kill another human being by accident. Example: a car crash where no one is a t fault (snowy roads, a patients dies on the operating room table during surgery, a construction site accident, pretty much any time someone dies by accident. A fetus is not considered a human being according to this section. If a pregnant woman is kicked in the stomach and the fetus dies, it is not homicide as a fetus is not a human being.
