Posted: September 7th, 2017

Criminal homicide.

Criminal homicide.
a. A person commits the offense of criminal homicide
if he causes the death of another human being by
voluntary acts the ordinary consequence of which
is death of another.
b. Criminal homicide is aggravated criminal homicide
– (carrying a maximum term of life imprisonment) or
simple criminal homicide (carrying a maximum term
of imprisonment for five years)
c, It is an affirmative defense to aggravated criminal
homicide, but not to simple criminal homicide, that
the actor did not kill purposely or knowingly.