Principle

CRIMINAL LAW – Defences – Provocation – Time for Passion to Cool – What Constitutes

Area of law
CRIMINAL LAW
Court
Supreme Court

Moving from one location to another—especially with time between incidents—indicates sufficient cooling time. If the accused acts sequentially against different victims with intervening travel or delay, passion is deemed to have cooled. The law requires the killing to occur while still in the heat of…

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