Title 200 · NRS Chapter 200

“Voluntary manslaughter” defined.

Citation: NRS 200.050

Section: 200.200.050

NRS

200.050

“Voluntary manslaughter” defined.

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 )