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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY.
Chapter 4 Crimes Against the Person (18.2-30 thru 18.2-76.2)
18.2-33 Felony homicide defined; punishment
VA Code § 18.2-33 (2001 through Reg Session) What's This?
18.2-33. Felony homicide defined; punishment.
The killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, while in the prosecution of some felonious act other than those specified in 18.2-31 and 18.2-32, is murder of the second degree and is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than five years nor more than forty years.
(1975, cc. 14, 15; 1999, c. 282.)
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