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2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 200 - Crimes Against the Person
NRS 200.040 - Manslaughter defined.


NV Rev Stat § 200.040 (2011) What's This?

1. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice express or implied, and without any mixture of deliberation.

2. Manslaughter must be voluntary, upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a provocation apparently sufficient to make the passion irresistible, or involuntary, in the commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act without due caution or circumspection.

3. Manslaughter does not include vehicular manslaughter as described in NRS 484B.657.

[1911 C&P 122; RL 6387; NCL 10069] (NRS A 1983, 1014; 1995, 1725; 2005, 79)

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