Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

Marginal note:Homicide

• 222 (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.