Crime of murder and manslaughter under section 140, 141 of the criminal code

Resumé This Master's thesis concerns murder and manslaughter under ss. 140 and 141 of the Czech Penal Code. It is impossible to solve this problem globally, because it is a very broad topic. The thesis focuses on s. 140 (3), which covers qualified murders. The author tries to describe qualified elements in such murders on the background of jurisprudence and court decisions; then he considers them. The qualified elements under s. 140 (3) of the Czech Penal Code are divided into seven chapters. The author not only describes the elements in each chapter, he also tries to analyse the possibility of legal qualification of manslaughter in situations, where qualification elements under s. 140 (3) of the Czech Penal Code are formally satisfied. Each of the chapters contains a brief comparison with German law, too. The thesis is composed of ten chapters. Chapter One is the introduction to murders and intentional killings generally. It provides the system of intentional killings under the Czech Penal Code, Czech legal history of such crimes, obligatory elements in murders and it deals with differences between affective and premeditative murders. Chapter Two introduces legal regulation of qualified elements under s. 140 (3) of the Czech Penal Code. The following seven chapters are the main part of the thesis. Chapter..