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Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

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Act current to 2024-02-20 and last amended on 2024-01-14. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Homicide

  •  (1) A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being.

  • Marginal note:Kinds of homicide

    (2) Homicide is culpable or not culpable.

  • Marginal note:Non culpable homicide

    (3) Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence.

  • Marginal note:Culpable homicide

    (4) Culpable homicide is murder or manslaughter or infanticide.

  • Marginal note:Idem

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

    • (a) by means of an unlawful act;

    • (b) by criminal negligence;

    • (c) by causing that human being, by threats or fear of violence or by deception, to do anything that causes his death; or

    • (d) by wilfully frightening that human being, in the case of a child or sick person.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (6) Notwithstanding anything in this section, a person does not commit homicide within the meaning of this Act by reason only that he causes the death of a human being by procuring, by false evidence, the conviction and death of that human being by sentence of the law.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 205

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