Manslaughter
234 Culpable homicide that is not murder or infanticide is manslaughter.
Annotations | French
- Section 234
- Manslaughter involves conduct that causes the death of another person that falls short of the intention to kill. The primary difference between murder and manslaughter is the mental element, or the mens rea. Murder requires a person to subjectively intend or foresee death. Manslaughter only requires an objective foresight of bodily harm that is neither trivial or transitory: R v Creighton, [1993] 3 SCR 3 at p 44-45.