200.050 - “Voluntary manslaughter” defined.

200.050  “Voluntary manslaughter” defined.

      1.  In cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing.

      2.  Voluntary manslaughter does not include vehicular manslaughter as described in NRS 484B.657.

      [1911 C&P § 123; RL § 6388; NCL § 10070]—(NRS A 2005, 79)