The law says
Criminal Code s. 222- (1)A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being.
- (2)Homicide is culpable or not culpable.
- (3)Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence.
- (4)Culpable homicide is murder or manslaughter or infanticide.
- (5)A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being, (a) by means of an unlawful act;
- (b)by criminal negligence;
- (c)by causing that human being, by threats or fear of violence or by deception, to do anything that causes his death; or
- (d)by wilfully frightening that human being, in the case of a child or sick person.
- (6)Notwithstanding anything in this section, a person does not commit homicide within the meaning of this Act by reason only that he causes the death of a human being by procuring, by false evidence, the conviction and death of that human being by sentence of the law.
Amendment History (1)
- R.S., c. C-34, s. 205
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