Culpable Homicide not amounting to Murder

When someone causes death but without full intention or premeditation, it falls under culpable homicide — a less severe charge than murder.

• A hits B in sudden anger without intention to kill, but B dies. This may be culpable homicide.

Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that such act is likely to cause death, commits culpable homicide.