Michigan Supreme Court· 5/21/1974

People v. Townes

Citations

218 N.W.2d 136
391 Mich. 578
1974 Mich. LEXIS 155

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observing that voluntary manslaughter is an intentional killing in which the killer’s malice was negated by provocation and killing in the heat of passion
noting that a defendant “may only be held legally accountable as an aggressor for responsive conduct by another that is reasonably attributable to [his] own conduct”
“A defendant properly convicted of voluntary manslaughter is a person who has acted out of a temporary excitement induced by an adequate provocation and not from the deliberation and reflection that marks the crime of murder.”
“A defendant properly convicted of voluntary manslaughter is a person who has acted out of a temporary excitement induced by an adequate provocation 1 The Court of Appeals has previously reached the same conclusion under analogous facts in People v Zak, 184 Mich App 1; 457 NW2d 59 (1990

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Judges: Kavanagh, Levin, Swainson, Coleman, Williams, Fitzgerald

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