2017 Utah Code
Title 76 - Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 5 - Offenses Against the Person
Part 2 - Criminal Homicide
Section 209 - Homicide by assault -- Penalty.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 76-5-209 (2017)
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76-5-209. Homicide by assault -- Penalty.
  • (1) A person commits homicide by assault if, under circumstances not amounting to aggravated murder, murder, or manslaughter, a person causes the death of another while intentionally or knowingly attempting, with unlawful force or violence, to do bodily injury to another.
  • (2) Homicide by assault is a third degree felony.


Enacted by Chapter 291, 1995 General Session
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