Homicide and the Law

Subject: Homicide and the Law
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cerberus611 29.07.19 - 07:49am
Okay, so many countries' Law allows for the acquittal of murder but within the bounds of self-defense, but what if you see someone get killed (possibly from a knife infliction), and you witness the killer run and you draw out your gun, shooting him in the back.
Are you guilty of manslaughter then?

Also what if you drop something edible, by accident, on the floor and put it back in its rightful container, and a few days later you find someone sick because of consuming it, only later finding out that someone has died because of it. You feel guilty realising the connection and come forward. Will you be charged with culpable homicide? * +

mikeymk 29.07.19 - 07:55am
Probably. * +

prattle 29.07.19 - 08:27am
Who are you trying to kill? * +

cerberus611 29.07.19 - 08:28am

Me? Kill somebody? No.
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budgiesmuggler 29.07.19 - 08:43am
You didn't really have a valid reason to shoot in most places.
Can you pay some people to say he was running after 3 school girls so you shot him ?

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ladibud 29.07.19 - 09:38am

@ cerberus611 - 29.07.19 - 07:49am
Okay, so many countries' Law allows for the acquittal of murder but within the bounds of self-defense, but what if you see someone get killed (possibly from a knife infliction), and you witness the killer run and you draw out your gun, shooting him in the back.
Are you guilty of manslaughter then?

Also what if you drop something edible, by accident, on the floor and put it back in its rightful container, and a few days later you find someone sick because of consuming it, only later finding out that someone has died because of it. You feel guilty realising the connection and come forward. Will you be charged with culpable homicide?

shooting someone in the back isn't legal. it isn't in self defence or to save another. shooting in the back and he dies could get you up on murder. ...

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eyesore 29.07.19 - 10:52am
I think in the bleak house episode he shot one in the back ....but I could be wrong .... * +

tazdevil 29.07.19 - 01:00pm
Case 1 is very slippery.

You basically shot someone dead lol you probably would, and should get in trouble. If the killer turned on you, then you could shoot him in self-defence. But otherwise, you really shouldn't draw a lethal weapon unless you would be justified in using it.

So if you can justify that the killer was a threat, and could have harmed other people around too (or could do it again) then maybe you shouldn't be held accountable. You prevented further atrocities.

Case 2 is

You can't be culpable for putting something that fell back in its container. You would be long gone before anyone gets ill from eating it. Can you imagine the number of times things fall in an average day at a grocery store, and are put back on their shelves? This happens so often. You wouldn't be able to even ascertain that the food you had put back, was the food that resulted in someone's death. * +