a. Culpable homicide is called murder when you mean to cause someone to die.

Culpable homicide is not murder if the offender, while deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation, causes the death of the person who gave the provocation […]

Section 300 defines murder, which is also a culpable homicide with some special characteristics, […]

A charge of culpable homicide found relevant against both a shopkeeper and his servant, in respect that the former had culpably entrusted his servant with the charge of drugs which were sold in the shop, and the latter had culpably dispensed to a customer such an excessive dose of tartar emetic as to cause death. Henderson (High Court), 13 June 1842; 1 Broun 360.

But it may amount to culpable homicide to cause the death of a living child, if any part of that child has been brought forth, though the child may not have breathed or been completely born.

The distinction between murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder is fine but appreciable.

Culpable homicide

Meaning

Noun