§ 2-207. Manslaughter

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   (a) Penalty. -- A person who commits manslaughter is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to:

   (1) imprisonment not exceeding 10 years; or

   (2) imprisonment in a local correctional facility not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding $ 500 or both.

(b) Spousal adultery not a mitigating factor. -- The discovery of one's spouse engaged in sexual intercourse with another does not constitute legally adequate provocation for the purpose of mitigating a killing from the crime of murder to voluntary manslaughter even though the killing was provoked by that discovery.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 387, 387A; 2002, ch. 26, § 2.

                    
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