2013, No. 10
Crimes
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kills that person, although the immediate cause of death is the act
or omission of some other person or some other independent
intervening event.
98. Indirect cause of death - A person whose act or
omission results in the death of another person shall be deemed
to have caused the death of that other person, although the
immediate cause of death is the act or omission of some other
person or some other independent intervening event.
99. Murder defined - 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 that is known to the offender to be
likely to cause death, and is reckless whether
death ensues or not;
(c) if the offender (i) means to cause death; or
(ii) means to cause bodily injury known to
the offender to be likely to cause death, and is
reckless whether death ensues or not,
to one person, and by accident, mistake or otherwise kills another
person, though he or she does not mean to hurt the person killed;
or
(d) if the offender for any unlawful object does an act that
he or she knows to be likely to cause death, and
thereby kills any person, though he or she may
have desired that his or her object should be
effected without hurting any person.
100. Further definition of “murder”-(1) Culpable homicide
is also murder in each of the following cases, whether the
offender means or does not mean death to ensue, or knows or
does not know that death is likely to ensue:
(a) if the offender means to cause grievous bodily injury
for the purpose of facilitating the commission of
any of the offences mentioned in subsection (2),