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manslaughter
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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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.†
p. 181.4
It's manslaughter.†
p. 215.1
He offers three choices: guilty of murder, guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and not guilty.†
p. 289.9

voluntary manslaughter = not planning to kill a person, but then intentionally killing in the heat of passion
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.†
p. 309.3
That's a scenario for manslaughter maybe, but not first-degree murder.†
p. 351.9
And in Georgia, a conviction for manslaughter usually carries a sentence of five to ten years with two years to serve.†
p. 352.1 *

Definitions:

(1) (manslaughter)
unintentional killing of a person

Manslaughter can be involuntary (as when a drunk driver accidentally kills someone), or voluntary (as when there was no plan to kill someone, but then the person kills in the heat of passion).
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)