In today’s #FridayRead we will discuss the Ingredients of Murder.
The law on “Murder” can be found in the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). Section 47 of Act 29 defines Murder as,
A person who intentionally causes the death of another person by an unlawful harm commits murder, unless the murder is reduced to manslaughter by reason of an extreme provocation, or any other matter of partial excuse.
This means that, for a person to convicted of murder, the person must have first of all caused the death of another person, the death of the person must have been caused by an unlawful harm and finally the infliction of the unlawful harm to cause the death of the other person should have been intentional.
Without these listed out ingredients, one cannot be successfully convicted of murder which means that, it can be reduced to manslaughter if it was done by extreme provocation or any other justifiable cause.