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(4) The standard of proof by the accused of any of the facts or circumstances set out in subsection (3), shall be on a balance of probabilities. 194B. Repealed [Repealed by Act No. 13 of 1984 s. 63.] 195. Manslaughter Division IV. – Offences against the Person (ss 195-256) CHAPTER XX MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER (ss 195-205) (1) Any person who by an unlawful act or omission causes the death of another person is guilty of manslaughter. (2) An unlawful omission is an omission amounting to culpable negligence to discharge a duty tending to the preservation of life or health, whether the omission is or is not accompanied by an intention to cause death or bodily harm. 196. Murder Any person who, with malice aforethought, causes the death of another person by an unlawful act or omission is guilty of murder. 197. Punishment for murder A person convicted of murder shall be sentenced to death. 198. Punishment for manslaughter Any person who commits manslaughter is liable to imprisonment for life. 199. Conviction for infanticide in certain cases Where a woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child, being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission she had not fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child, and for that reason or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child the balance of her mind was then disturbed, she shall, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for this section the offence would have amounted to murder, be guilty of infanticide, and may, be dealt with and punished for the offence as if she had been guilty of manslaughter of the child. 200. Malice aforethought Malice aforethought shall be deemed to be established by evidence proving any one nor
more of the following circumstances– (a) an intention to cause the death of or to do grievous harm to any person, whether that person is the person actually killed or not; (b) knowledge that the act or omission causing death will probably cause the death of or grievous harm to some person, whether that person is the person actually killed or not, although that knowledge is accompanied by indifference whether death or grievous bodily harm is caused or not, or by a wish that it may not be caused; (c) an intent to commit an offence punishable with a penalty which is graver than imprisonment for three years; (d) an intention by the act or omission to facilitate the flight or escape from custody of any person who has committed or attempted to commit an offence. 201. Killing on provocation When a person who unlawfully kills another under circumstances which, but for the provisions of this section would constitute murder, does the act which causes death in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation as defined in section 202, and before there is time for his passion to cool, he is guilty of manslaughter only. 202. Provocation defined (1) The term "provocation" means, except as hereinafter stated, any wrongful act or insult of such a nature as to be likely, when done to an ordinary person, or in the presence of an ordinary person to another person who is under his immediate care, or to whom he stands in a conjugal, parental, filial or fraternal relation, or in the relation of master or servant, to deprive him of the power of self-control and to induce him to commit an assault of the kind which the person charged committed upon the person by whom the act or insult is done or offered. (2) When the unlawful act or insult is done or offered by one person to another, or in the presence of another to a person who is under the immediate care of that other, or to whom the latter stands in any relationship referred to in subsection (1), the former is said to give the latter provocation for an assault. (3) A lawful act is not provocation to any person for an assault. (4) An act which a person does in consequence of incitement given by another person in order to induce him to do the act and thereby to furnish an excuse for committing an assault is not provocation to that other person for an assault. (5) An arrest which is unlawful is not necessarily provocative for an assault, but it may be evidence of provocation to a person who knows of the illegality. (6) For the purposes of this section, the expression "an ordinary person" means an ordinary
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