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  • Could be murder, could be manslaughter, could be an accident—could be anything.†   (source)
  • That's why they came back with manslaughter for two of the counts.'†   (source)
  • There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death at a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary at Angola for manslaughter.†   (source)
  • But Annie Little was in the Asylum with me, her crime being manslaughter, having struck and killed a stableboy with a log of wood; and she was said to suffer from nervous excitement, and was sent back here at the same time as me; but should not have been, as I do not think she is right in the head; so I resolved to forgive her this time, unless she did worse.†   (source)
  • He had been involved in nine murder or manslaughter cases.†   (source)
  • "I saw Ed McMellon," Boss would later testify, when the four officers were brought to trial on charges of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree murder.†   (source)
  • The worst crime I've ever seen a GP get charged with for killing a GD was 'manslaughter.'†   (source)
  • He was being held for involuntary manslaughter and assaulting a peace officer.†   (source)
  • Of course we had the usual list of guys in for car theft, pimping, mail theft, murder, manslaughter, assault, burglary, larceny, arson, explosives, drug possession, drug dealing.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said finally, "they won't have nothing worse than manslaughter against Shade.†   (source)
  • Even in his intoxicated state, the driver had known that Missy was dead and that he'd be facing a manslaughter charge at the least, maybe second-degree murder if he'd had prior offenses.†   (source)
  • I was an E-felony, criminally negligent homicide, reduced from a charge of manslaughter in the second degree, and we played game after game of half-court, going all-out and taking deep and healthy breaths and having a tussle or two.†   (source)
  • Lozano was eventually convicted of two counts of manslaughter, and the community was satisfied.†   (source)
  • Of the eight soldiers, six were acquitted and two found guilty of manslaughter, for which they were branded on their thumbs.†   (source)
  • In fact, I heard that Jonathan, or his father, maybe, was wanted for armed robbery back in Philadelphia, or maybe manslaughter, which is why the two of them had to move here in the first place.†   (source)
  • Vehicular manslaughter.†   (source)
  • Now, however, his words were an invitation to manslaughter.†   (source)
  • It was manslaughter.†   (source)
  • The driver, who would soon be charged with felony death by motor vehicle and involuntary manslaughter, was eighteen years old and already in handcuffs.   (source)
    manslaughter = unintentional killing of a person
  • That's a scenario for manslaughter maybe, but not first-degree murder.†   (source)
  • I engineered throwing him off the board of the Telfair museum when I was president, and I'm quite sure he pushed the D.A. into charging me with first-degree murder instead of involuntary manslaughter, though he denies it.†   (source)
  • Robbery, possession of illegal weapons, assault, manslaughter, and drug crime.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized that the charges might have included negligent homicide, or even manslaughter.†   (source)
  • I could hit him and he'd have a heart attack and die and I'd be up for manslaughter or something.†   (source)
  • But you can't be sentenced to death for manslaughter, can you?†   (source)
  • And if you did that, you would most probably be charged with manslaughter.†   (source)
  • If you determine that he is guilty of something else—of hatred, of assault, of manslaughter, of murder in self-defense, of coldness, of passion, of second-degree murder—none of that will be relevant.†   (source)
  • Josie had been charged as an accessory to second-degree murder and accepted a plea of manslaughter, with five years served.†   (source)
  • But let's suppose he did board Carl's boat— maybe it was to talk about the land business, maybe Carl attacked him, maybe it was self-defense or manslaughter, an argument that got out of hand—how do we know this was murder in the first degree, planned out ahead of time?†   (source)
  • If there was to be an indictment at all, involuntary manslaughter had seemed a more likely charge than murder, given what was known of the case.†   (source)
  • It's manslaughter.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, he had taken part in thirty-three murder or manslaughter investigations in the last ten years.†   (source)
  • I mean, I know it was an accident, I know whoever did it didn't mean to kill him, but if something like that happened here in the States, someone would be charged with manslaughter.†   (source)
  • Then he got into a fight in a bar in Södertälje and ended up with a conviction for manslaughter and a six-year prison sentence.†   (source)
  • That's two words, and I think it's only vehicular manslaughter, technically, if you run them over yourself.†   (source)
  • When a judge ruled that the prosecution couldn't do this, they decided to try me for manslaughter and again I thought why not, considering the recklessness of the act, but my lawyer Imperato, a man with sallow jowls and a briefcase that was shedding skin, arranged a plea deal and they went for a lesser charge and now I stood looking at the golf course on a soft summer morning a few days before my release and saw that someone had painted names all over the ramparts and windmills, the nicknames of gang members, all hail the Alhambras, and the guys gawked and pointed and bent over laughing and I thought this was the time to start my round of guilty goodbyes.†   (source)
  • Black people—in many ways a forgotten people in Miami—were incensed by a court's ruling that had overturned the conviction of a Hispanic Miami police officer in the manslaughter of two men.†   (source)
  • Manslaughter.†   (source)
  • Manslaughter?†   (source)
  • If what he'd said was true—if he'd seen Elizabeth being abused—then the two murders became manslaughter and self-defense.†   (source)
  • I would surmise that during this year alone the police will have to solve half a dozen murder or manslaughter cases where the killer is among this small group of patients.†   (source)
  • Manslaughter, not murder.†   (source)
  • It is not only that feud and open manslaughter have started: there is the bold bawdry as well.†   (source)
  • He said manslaughter was contrary to the quest.†   (source)
  • It was open manslaughter and bold bawdry.†   (source)
  • 'I should advise you to get straight back to your flat and go to bed,' said Colonel Julyan shortly, 'and drive slowly, or you will find yourself in jail for manslaughter.†   (source)
  • He had them on the run, and saw that he must keep them on it They were indignantly surprised by what they considered an unchivalrous personal outrage —outrageous to be attacked with positive manslaughter, as if a baron could be killed like a Saxon kern.†   (source)
  • Beware of malice prepense, of chance-medley, and of manslaughter.†   (source)
  • Is he going to make it manslaughter, or what's he going to make of it?†   (source)
  • No, my dear; manslaughter.†   (source)
  • "Manslaughter," repeated Mr. Wilcox.†   (source)
  • I can mind every serious fight o' married parties, every murder, every manslaughter, even every pocket-picking—leastwise large ones—that 't has been my lot to witness.†   (source)
  • 'Don't you know,' said Mr Mantalini, taking Ralph by the button, 'that it wasn't an accident at all, but a demd, furious, manslaughtering attack made upon him by your nephew?'†   (source)
  • Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.†   (source)
  • Well, there's calamities where we least expect it, whether or no. Neighbours, if Mrs. Yeobright were to die, d'ye think we should be took up and tried for the manslaughter of a woman?†   (source)
  • Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud?†   (source)
  • As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder.†   (source)
  • * *forbid gambling*
    Hazard is very mother of leasings,* *lies
    And of deceit, and cursed forswearings:
    Blasphem' of Christ, manslaughter, and waste also
    Of chattel* and of time; and furthermo' *property
    It is repreve,* and contrar' of honour, *reproach
    For to be held a common hazardour.†   (source)
  • Anger, with all its fruits in revenge, rancour, hate, discord, manslaughter, blasphemy, swearing, falsehood, flattery, chiding and reproving, scorning, treachery, sowing of strife, doubleness of tongue, betraying of counsel to a man's disgrace, menacing, idle words, jangling, japery or buffoonery, &c.†   (source)
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  • He offers three choices: guilty of murder, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and not guilty.†   (source)
  • If they go with voluntary manslaughter, she'd be eligible for probation, but I doubt if Judge Green would grant it.†   (source)
  • What Angel had described to me was voluntary manslaughter, at worst.†   (source)
  • If she tells the truth, I can argue self-defense or voluntary manslaughter because he sodomized her:' "What's the worst case if you go that way?"†   (source)
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