History of Homicide
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1985
Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46
Section 212 was renumbered as s. 229
1970
Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1970, c. C-34
Section 201 was renumbered as s. 212.
1953
Section 259 was renumbered as s. 201:
- Murder
201. Culpable homicide is murder
- (a) where the person who causes the death of a human being
- (i) means to cause his death, or
- (ii) means to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not;
- (b) where a person, meaning to cause death to a human being or meaning to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and being reckless whether death ensues or not, by accident or mistake causes death to another human being, notwithstanding that he does not mean to cause death or bodily harm to that human being; or
- (c) where a person, for an unlawful object, does anything that he knows or ought to know is likely to cause death, and thereby causes death to a human being, notwithstanding that he desires to effect his object without causing death or bodily harm to any human being.
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1927
Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1927, c. 36 Section 259 was renumbered as s. 259.
1906
Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1906, c. 146
Section 227 was renumbered as s. 259. Th phrase “in each of the following cases” was deleted.
1892
Criminal Code, 1892, c. 29
- Definition of murder
227. Culpable homicide is murder in each of the following cases: (a) If the offender means to cause the death of the person killed; (b) If the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily injury which is known to the offender to be likely to cause death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not; (c) If the offender means to cause death, or being so reckless as aforesaid, means to cause such bodily injury as aforesaid to one person, and by accident or mistake kills another person, though he does not mean to hurt the person killed; (d) If the offender, for any unlawful object, does an act which he knows or ought to have known to be likely to cause death, and thereby kills any person, though he may have desired that his object should be effected without hurting any one.
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