Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014) |
TITLE15 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS |
CHAPTER200. Crimes Against the Person |
HOMICIDE |
NRS200.050. “Voluntary manslaughter” defined.
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1. In cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing.
2. Voluntary manslaughter does not include vehicular manslaughter as described in NRS 484B.657.
[1911 C&P § 123; RL § 6388; NCL § 10070]—(NRS A 2005, 79)