Deck 13: Homicide

Question 1

What term describes the legally permitted killing of a human being?

A) Justifiable homicide
B) Excusable homicide
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

What Latin term describes killing one's wife?

A) Uxoricide
B) Sororicide
C) Matricide
D) Mariticide

Answer 2

Uxoricide

Question 3

What is an example of justifiable homicide?

A) Killing of enemies during battle
B) Killing of a dangerous felony suspect by a police officer to prevent bystanders from being harmed
C) Legal execution of murderers
D) All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

What kind of belief requires self-defense?

A) Correct
B) Reasonable
C) Strong
D) Rational

Question 5

Before a person can use self-defense to justify homicide, what must he or she establish?

A) Imminent danger
B) Immediate danger
C) Instantaneous danger
D) Instant danger

Question 6

What is the exception to the requirement that people must try to retreat from deadly confrontation before engaging in self-defense?

A) Pinkerton doctrine
B) Castle doctrine
C) Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine
D) Plain view doctrine

Question 7

At common law, to convict a defendant of homicide, within what time period after the defendant's blow must the victim die?

A) Three years and a day
B) Two years and a day
C) Year and a day
D) Anytime

Question 8

What Latin term describes the body on which the crime has been committed?

A) Mens rea
B) Mala prohibita
C) Actus reus
D) Corpus delicti

Question 9

What term describes the dominant cause of death?

A) Proximate cause
B) Probable cause
C) Immediate cause
D) Possible cause

Question 10

What is an element of felonious homicide?

A) Reckless behavior
B) Intent to commit felony
C) Uncontrolled emotional outburst
D) Imminent danger

Question 11

What is a kind of felonious homicide?

A) Manslaughter
B) Murder
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Question 12

What decision of the U.S. Supreme Court was used by states to ban doctor-assisted suicides?

A) Batson v. Kentucky
B) Washington v. Glucksberg
C) Gideon v. Wainwright
D) Miranda v. Arizona

Question 13

In Oregon, what act of the legislature legalizes physician-assisted suicide?

A) Death with Dignity
B) Death with Mercy
C) Death by Choice
D) Death with Respect

Question 14

What is illegal in the U.S.?

A) Euthanasia
B) Counseling another to commit suicide
C) All of the above
D) None of the above

Question 15

Under earlier statutes, what was the punishment for second-degree murder?

A) Death
B) Hard labor
C) Life imprisonment
D) 50 year prison sentence

Question 16

What is a way to commit first-degree murder?

A) Killing another deliberately after premeditation and planning
B) Killing another in the heat of passion
C) Killing another accidentally while committing a wanton act
D) Counseling another how to commit a suicide

Question 17

What does premeditated malice aforethought mean?

A) Deliberating on
B) Thinking over
C) Weighing in the mind beforehand
D) All of the above

Question 18

What act is qualified as involuntary manslaughter?

A) Unlawful
B) Wanton
C) Reckless
D) All of the above

Question 19

What act of the wife is involuntary manslaughter?

A) Killing her husband's lover in the heat of passion
B) Putting poison in the glass of her husband's lover
C) Accidentally killing her husband's lover while speeding
D) Helping her husband's lover to commit suicide

Question 20

In Indiana criminal code, what is the mitigating factor reducing murder to voluntary manslaughter?

A) Unexpected heat
B) Sudden heat
C) Impulsive heat
D) Unpredicted heat

Question 21

Patricide is killing a parent.

Question 22

Many Latin terms are used to describe various types of homicide.

Question 23

Self-defense is an example of felonious homicide.

Question 24

Under common law, a person's home is his or her castle.

Question 25

In some states, defendants must try to move away from deadly confrontations before engaging in self-defense.

Question 26

To convict a defendant of homicide, the prosecution must prove that the defendant's act was the sole cause of the victim's death.

Question 27

Many states made it homicide to kill an unborn child in its mother's womb when the child is viable.

Question 28

Historically, an evil intent was called "depraved state of mind."

Question 29

A person who commits a felony is called malefactor.

Question 30

At common law, suicide was considered to be a murder.

Question 31

A doctor is involved in euthanasia.

Question 32

Under earlier statutes, murder has been divided into two or three degrees.

Question 33

Some states distinguish between the two degrees of murder depending on where the malice was implied or express.

Question 34

Any accident resulting in a person's death is classified as involuntary manslaughter.

Question 35

Indiana's voluntary manslaughter definition is almost identical to the state's definition of justifiable homicide.

Question 36

Killing a sister is called ________.

Question 37

When a defendant argues that, despite being responsible for the act committed, he or she did nothing wrong, it is called a ________ defense.

Question 38

A valid excuse for killing an assailant is called ________.

Question 39

An old rule controlling the doctrine of causation in murder cases is called the ________ rule.

Question 40

The person is motivated by cruelty and hostility when ________ is present.

Question 41

When doctors prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill people who have six months left to live, it is called ________ suicide.

Question 42

Under earlier statutes, murder in the second degree was punished by ________ imprisonment.

Question 43

In some states, a murder committed with an implied malice is qualified as ________ murder.

Question 44

When voluntary manslaughter occurs, a(n) ________ to kill exists.

Question 45

Involuntary manslaughter is defined in criminal ________.

Question 46

Define felonious homicide and justifiable homicide. Compare and contrast them.

Question 47

Define first-degree murder and second-degree murder. Compare and contrast them.

Question 48

Euthanasia is legal in some European countries (e.g., Netherlands) but illegal in the U.S. Present arguments for and against the legalization of euthanasia in America.

Question 49

Annabelle learns that her husband is having a love affair with Irina. Annabelle thinks, "I wish this woman dead!"
Later that day, while speeding, Annabelle kills a pedestrian, who happened to be Irina. What crime did Annabelle commit - murder or manslaughter?