Definitions for chapter
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Commonwealth v. Hager (2001)
Most recently applied in Peacher v. Commonwealth (February 2013)
Effective: June 24, 2015 History: Amended 2015 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Abuse" has the same meaning as in KRS 508.090;
(2) "Criminal homicide" means that a person is guilty of causing the death of another human being under circumstances which constitute murder, manslaughter in the first degree, manslaughter in the second degree, or reckless homicide; and (3) "Physically helpless" and "mentally helpless" have the same meaning as in KRS 508.090.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.