Homicide
HOM'ICIDE, noun [Latin homicidium; homo, man, and caedo, to strike, to kill.]
1. The killing of one man or human being by another. homicide is of three kinds, justifiable, excusable, and felonious; justifiable, when it proceeds from unavoidable necessity, without an intention to kill, and without negligence; excusable, when it happens from misadventure, or in self-defense; felonious, when it proceeds from malice, or is done in the prosecution of some unlawful act, or in a sudden passion. homicide committed with premeditated malice, is murder. Suicide also, or self-murder, is felonious homicide homicide comprehends murder and manslaughter.
1. A person who kills another; a manslayer.