TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 40

HOMICIDE

18-4005.  Petit treason abolished. The rules of the common law, distinguishing the killing of a master by his servant, and of a husband by his wife, as petit treason, are abolished, and these offenses are homicides, punishable in the manner prescribed by this chapter.

History:

[18-4005, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 928.]