Criminal Homicide Defined

(a) A person is guilty of criminal homicide if he causes the death of another human being: (1) intentionally and with premeditation; or (2) intentionally; or (3) knowingly; or (4) recklessly; or (5 by criminal negligence. (b) Criminal homicide is aggravated murder, murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide. SOURCE: *M.P.C. § 210.1; Cal. § 1410 (T.D.2 1968); N.J. § 2C:11-2; R/R by P.L. 16-126. COURT DECISIONS: C.A.9 1981 Where officers' testimony show that the testimony of a witness was secured by a promise that the witness would not be charged in exchanged for his cooperation, the trial court erred when it failed to give an instruction on immunity warning the jury of the witnesses' motivation. And instruction on accomplice testimony was unnecessary when the witness was an accessory after the fact, but did not participate in the actual murder. People v. Dela Rosa, 644 F.2d 1257.