Question and answer on law part 4

1) What is difference between Murder and culpable homicide?

Ans:

1. Culpable homicide is wider than the term murder. Culpable homicide is therefore considered as the genus while as murder is regarded as a species. All murders are culpable homicide but all culpable homicides are not regarded as murder.
2. Murder is an aggravated form of culpable homicide.
3. In murder, the offender has a definite knowledge that the act would result in the death while as in culpable homicide the knowledge is not so definite.
4. The probability of causing death is higher in murder than culpable homicide.

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