VOCABULARY

Question 1

ASSAULT

Answer 1

ASSAULT, is defined as the unlawful placing of another in the reasonable apprehension of an immediate impending battery

Question 2

BATTERY

Answer 2

BATTERY, is defined as the unlawful, harmful or offensive touching of another without consent or privilege.

Question 3

BURGLARY AT COMMON LAW

Answer 3

At Common Law, burglary is defined as the breaking and entering into the dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony therein.

Question 4

BURGLARY, MODERNLY

Answer 4

Modernly, burglary is defined as the entering of a protected structure of another with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein.

Question 5

LARCENY

Answer 5

Larceny is the taking and carrying away of the personal property of another without their consent and with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of it.

Question 6

ROBBERY

Answer 6

Robbery is the taking and carrying away of the personal property of another through threat or force, from their immediate presence, with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of their property.

Question 7

ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT

Answer 7

Accessory after the fact is defined as a crime when one who knows that a crime has been committed, aids and assists one in escaping capture or prosecution for that crime

Question 8

ARSON

Answer 8

Arson is defined as willfully and maliciously setting fire to any structure and land of another. Arson can be defined as willfully and mailiciously setting fire to one’s own property if for the purpose of insurance fraud.

Question 9

ATTEMPT

Answer 9

Attemp is defined as a direct but ineffectual act towards the completion of a criminal offense with the specific intent to commit the crime.

Question 10

ATTEMPTED

BATTERY

Answer 10

Attempted Battery is defined as a direct but ineffectual act towards the completion of the crime of battery with the specific intent to commit battery.

Question 11

BIGAMY

Answer 11

Bigamy is defined as marrying any other person while having a husband or wife living.

Question 12

BRIBERY

Answer 12

Bribery is defined as giving, offering, promising to anyone about to be called as a witness, consideration with any understanding or agreement that the testimony of the witness shall be influenced by the consideration.

Question 13

COMPOUNDING A FELONY

Answer 13

Compounding a felony is defined as taking money, property, gratuity, reward, or promise therof, while agreeing to conceal a crime or abstain from prosecuting a crime with knowledge that a crime has been committed.

Question 14

CONSPIRACY

Answer 14

Conspiracy is defined as an agreement between two or more parties to commit the criminal offense of ( ) and an overt act towards the copletion of that offense.

Question 15

EMBEZZLRMENT

Answer 15

Embezzlement is defined as the converting of the property of another who has entrusted that property to the defendant, with the intent to permanently deprive.

Question 16

EXTORTION

Answer 16

Extortion is defined as obtainging property of another by wrongful use of force or under color of authority with the intent to permanently deprive.

Question 17

FORGERY

Answer 17

Forgery is defined as the fraudulent creating or altering of a document or object with the intent to defraud or deceive.

Question 18

HOMICIDE

Answer 18

Homicide is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being by another.

Question 19

MURDER

Answer 19

Murder is defined as the intentional killing of another with malice aforethought.

Question 20

MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

Answer 20

Malice Aforethought is the mens rea of murder and is defined as either express or implied.

Question 21

EXPRESS

Answer 21

Express malice is defined as the intent to kill.

Question 22

IMPLIED

Answer 22

Implied malice can be inferred by acts intending to create great bodily harm, by acts that demenstrate depraved indifference, or by acts that are inherently dangerous to human life, or by killing lduring commission of a felony.

Question 23

MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE

Answer 23

First degree murder is murder committed with premeditation and deliberation.

Question 24

PREMEDITATION

Answer 24

Premeditation is supported by the facts indicaating planning and preparation to kill.

Question 25

Deliberation

Answer 25

Deliberation is supported by facts indicating the killer took the time to reflect before killing.

Question 26

MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE

Answer 26

Murder in the secondd degree is defined as the unlawful and intentional killing of another with malice aforethought. Alternatively, second degree murder is understood as all murders that are not first degree.

Question 27

FELONY MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE

Answer 27

Felony Murder in the first degree is murder committed during the intentional commission of an enumerated felony.

Question 28

FELONY MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE

Answer 28

Felony Murder in the second degree is murder committed during the intentional commission of a felony not otherwise enumerated.

Question 29

MANSLAUGHTER

Answer 29

Manslaughter is defined as an intentional killing of another without malice aforethought.

Question 30

VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER

Answer 30

Voluntary manslaughter is defined as an unlawful intentional killing of another during the use of imperfect self-defense.

Question 31

HEAT OF PASSION

Answer 31

Heat of Passion exists when a defendant is provoked, a reasonable person would have been so provoked, a reasonable person would not have had time to cool off and the defendant did not have time to cool off.

Question 32

IMPERFECT SELF-DEFENSE

Answer 32

Imperfect self-denfense occurs when a defendant believes their personal safety is in danger, but that belief is unreasonable.