{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:277","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Provoked Murder","number":"277","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/277/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK III — OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON, PUBLIC DECENCY AND THE FAMILY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — Offences against Life"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who intentionally causes the death of another person in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation is guilty of provoked murder, if the offence is provoked by a wrongful act or insult that is sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control and the person acted on it suddenly and before there was time for his passion to cool,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/277/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":202,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/202/?article=277&paragraph=lead#article-277-lead"}]},{"id":"u2","number":"","text":"is guilty of provoked murder, a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/277/#u2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":202,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/202/?article=277&paragraph=u2#article-277-u2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}