Nevada · Nevada Revised Statutes — Title 15, Crimes and Punishments

NRS (Crimes) § 200.060: When killing punished as murder

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

This statute defines when a killing constitutes murder. A killing from sudden, violent passion is murder; if time passes allowing reason to intervene before the killing, it is deliberate revenge and punished as murder.

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