Manslaughter

Manslaughter, a criminal offence, and defined as homicide felonious, but without premeditation, and it may be either (1) involuntary, as where a man, doing an unlawful act not amounting to felony, by accident kills another, or where by culpable neglect of duty he occasions another's death; or, (2) voluntary, as when, upon a sudden quarrel, two persons fight and one of them kills the other, or where a man greatly provokes another by some personal violence and the other immediately kills him. Both classes of the crime constitute felony, and are punishable, at the discretion of the court, by penal servitude for life or for not less than three years, or by ordinary imprisonment or by a fine.