Sentences with phrase «commits culpable homicide»

Idem (5) A person commits culpable homicide when he causes the death of a human being,

He's speaking after an appeal court judge overruled a previous decision that Oscar Pistorius had committed culpable homicide when he killed his late girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and changed it to murder.

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Jauro and Sanni were charged before Hon. Justice Josiah Majebi of the Okene division of the High Court of Justice on four counts of criminal conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and culpable homicide, all of which contravene sections of the Penal Code.

Murder in commission of offences 230 Culpable homicide is murder where a person causes the death of a human being while committing or attempting to commit high treason or treason or an offence mentioned in section 52 (sabotage), 75 (piratical acts), 76 (hijacking an aircraft), 144 or subsection 145 (1) or sections 146 to 148 (escape or rescue from prison or lawful custody), section 270 (assaulting a peace officer), section 271 (sexual assault), 272 (sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm), 273 (aggravated sexual assault), 279 (kidnapping and forcible confinement), 279.1 (hostage taking), 343 (robbery), 348 (breaking and entering) or 433 or 434 (arson), whether or not the person means to cause death to any human being and whether or not he knows that death is likely to be caused to any human being, if