“Voluntary manslaughter” defined
Applied in 22 court decisions — leading case Crawford v. State (2005)
Most recently applied in ACOSTA (XAVIER) v. STATE (August 2025)
[1911 C&P § 123; RL § 6388; NCL § 10070]—(NRS A 2005, 79)
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.
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.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.