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Originally posted by Dirty Meg:
Suppose a person shot at somebody, missed, and instead killed a passer-by. Are they guilty of murder, or manslaughter and attempted murder?
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Manslaughter and attempted murder. Since you tried to kill the first passerby it was pre meditated thus attempted murder, but since you actually killed the second passerby it would be manslaughter since there was no motive.
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