Kallie Noble Murder Notes

Kallie Noble Murder

Homicide vs. Murder

• Definition: Homicide becomes murder based on specific criteria.

Coke's Definition of Murder

• Definition: "Murder is when a man of sound memory, and of the age of discretion, unlawfully killeth within any country of the realm any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either expressed by the party or implied by law, so as the party wounded or hurt die of the wound or hurt, within a year and a day after the same."

Jurisdiction

• General Rule: Murder can be charged if committed anywhere in England and Wales.

• Unusual Extension: Jurisdiction extends to any murder committed in any country by a British Citizen.

• Implication: A British Citizen can be tried in an English court for a murder allegedly committed in another country (governmental diplomats may get involved).

Actus Reus: Unlawful Killing

• Abolished Rule: The