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2025 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 200 - Crimes Against the Person
NRS 200.050 - "Voluntary manslaughter" defined.

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NV Rev Stat § 200.050 (2025)
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1. In cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing.

2. Voluntary manslaughter does not include vehicular manslaughter as described in NRS 484B.657.

[1911 C&P § 123; RL § 6388; NCL § 10070]—(NRS A 2005, 79)

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