Voluntary manslaughter
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
causing the death of another human being under circumstances which would otherwise be murder if the killer acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person.
Defined by the Supreme Court in McElroy v. M W Holloway, 451 U.S. 1028.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Manslaughter."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Murder; Manslaughter; Homicide.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In criminal law. Manslaughter committed voluntarily upon a sudden heat of the passions; as if, upon a sudden quarrel, two persons fight, and one of them kills the other. 4 Bl. Comm. 190, 191.
Defined under Manslaughter in Black's Law Dictionary.