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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2702
Heat of Passion - Manslaughter Mental State
Heat of passion is when a person acts in a state of violent and uncontrollable rage. The
person must have been provoked into acting in such a manner by some act(s) or word(s) which
would reasonably lead to an angry, hateful, resentful, or terrified emotional state of mind. If a
person kills in the heat of passion, the homicide is manslaughter and not murder.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Criminal 2702 (current as of June 30, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
1c2db24febc628802e5a3cbdf8523c1f06e86a5dd0b5fb03f266484b4338b566
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