- A. The rules of the common law distinguishing the killing of a master by his servant and of a husband by his wife as petit treason are abolished and these offenses are deemed homicides, punishable in the manner prescribed by Section 691 et seq. of this title.
- B. The rule of the common law providing that a death occurring after a year and a day from the date of a criminal corporal injury is irrebuttably presumed not to be the result of that injury is abolished.
R.L. 1910, § 2311; Amended by Laws 1994, SB 882, c. 65, § 1, emerg. eff. April 15, 1994.