All 6 Uses
manslaughter
in
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. 289.9voluntary 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:
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(1)
(manslaughter) unintentional killing of a personManslaughter 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)