Homicide defined · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 125.00 Homicide defined.
Homicide means conduct which causes the death of a person under circumstances constituting murder, manslaughter in the first degree, manslaughter in the second degree, or criminally negligent homicide.
“Homicide” is conduct that causes a person’s death under circumstances constituting murder, first- or second-degree manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.