Culpable homicide

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..... , or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide. Illustrations. (a) A lays sticks and turf over a pit, with the intention of thereby causing death, or with the knowledge that death is likely to be thereby caused. Z, believing the ground to be firm, treads on it, falls in and is killed. A has committed the offence of culpable .....

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..... have caused his death. Explanation 2 . Where death is caused by bodily injury, the person who causes such bodily injury shall be deemed to have caused the death, although by resorting to proper remedies and skilful treatment the death might have been prevented. Explanation 3 . The causing of the death of a child in the mother s womb is not homicide. But it may amount to culpable h .....

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