Criminal homicide is the unlawful killing of another person, which may be first degree murder, second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide or vehicular homicide.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-201
Criminal homicide
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case State v. Bland (1997)
Most recently applied in New York Times Co. v. United States Deparment of Justice (June 2014)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1991, ch. 377, § 1; 1995, ch. 460, § 3.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.