NC General Statutes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18 (2026)
Punishment for manslaughter
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Voluntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and involuntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class F felony. (4 Hen. VII, s. 13; 1816, c. 918, P.R.; R.C., c. 34, s. 24; 1879, c. 255; Code, s. 1055; Rev., s. 3632; C.S., s. 4201; 1933, c. 249; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c. 539, s. 112; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1997-443, s. 19.25(q).)
§ 14-18.1: Repealed by Session Laws 1994, Extra Session, c. 14, s. 73.
§ 14-18.2: Repealed by Session Laws 2011-60, s. 3, effective December 1, 2011, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 48
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1953–2026 · leading case: State v. Jones, 598 S.E.2d 125 (N.C. 2004).
State v. Jones, 598 S.E.2d 125 (N.C. 2004). “, N.C.G.S. § 14-18 (2003) (providing that “[v]oluntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class D felony, and involuntary manslaughter shall be punishable as a Class F felony”); N.”
United States v. Gomez-Leon, 545 F.3d 777 (9th Cir. 2008). “§ 30-2-3 (offense called "involuntary manslaughter" but requires criminal negligence); N.C. Gen.Stat. Ann. § 14-18 (offense called "manslaughter," but requires culpable negligence, not ordinary negligence, as interpreted by State v.”
State v. Blackmon, 132 S.E.2d 880 (N.C. 1963). “4201 *884 (now G.S. § 14-18), prior to the enactment of Chapter 249 of the Laws of 1933, read as follows: "If any person shall commit the crime of manslaughter he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail or State prison for not less than four months nor more than…”
State v. Wolfe, 577 S.E.2d 655 (N.C. Ct. App. 2003). “7 to use “[a]ny repealed or superseded offense substantially equivalent to the offenses listed in subdivision (1) [Class A through E felonies].”
State v. Walters, 240 S.E.2d 628 (N.C. 1978). “14-17 and G.S. 14-18, including the statutory provisions pertaining to punishment for first and second degree murder and manslaughter.”
State v. Powell, 426 S.E.2d 91 (N.C. Ct. App. 1993). “The evidence presented by the State established that at approximately nine o'clock on the evening of 20 October 1989, twenty-year-old Hoke Prevette (Prevette), an avid jogger, left his home at 805 Salisbury Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to run.”
State v. Swinney, 155 S.E.2d 545 (N.C. 1967). “G.S. § 14-18; State v. Adams, 266 N.C. 406 , 146 S.”
State v. Davis, 227 S.E.2d 97 (N.C. 1976). “1975), and for manslaughter, up to twenty years, G.S. 14-18 (1969). Murder in the first degree is obviously the most serious of the felonious homicides.”
State v. Walters, 235 S.E.2d 906 (N.C. Ct. App. 1977). “14-17 ["Murder in the first and second degree defined; punishment"] and G.S. 14-18 ["Punishment for manslaughter"] including the punishment provisions.”
State v. Howell, 811 S.E.2d 570 (N.C. 2018). “§ 14-30 (2003) (stating that a person who commits the crime malicious maiming "shall be punished as a Class C felon"); N.”
State v. Rivers, 307 S.E.2d 588 (N.C. Ct. App. 1983). “N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18 (1981); N.C. Gen.”
State v. Stimpson, 185 S.E.2d 168 (N.C. 1971). “*723 Prior to the effective date (April 10, 1933) of Chapter 249, Public Laws of 1933, G.S. 14-18 provided that manslaughter, whether voluntary or involuntary, was punishable by imprisonment for not less than four months and not more than twenty years.”
— N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-18(a) — 1 case
Spruce Pine Indus. v. Explosives Supply Co., 634 S.E.2d 264 (N.C. Ct. App. 2006).
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