CRIMINAL_LAW_REGIONALS_2026_CHAPTER_10_QUESTIONS_AND_ANSWERS

CRIMINAL LAW REGIONALS 2026: CHAPTER 10
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

10. At common law, how soon must a victim die after time of
the wrongful act for a homicide conviction? a. one year and
a day
b. one year
c. one month
d. one day - ANSWER ->a. one year and a day

11. The doctrine used when the intention to harm one
individual inadvertently causes a second person to be hurt
instead is called
a. transferred intent
b. manslaughter
c. voluntary manslaughter
d. involuntary manslaughter - ANSWER ->a. transferred intent

12. If a person is killed during the commission of a felony not
listed in § 1111, it is
a. not murder solely because of the felony committed
b. not murder
c. murder solely because of the felony committed
d. none of these answers is correct - ANSWER ->a. not murder
solely because of the felony committed

, 13. Which of the following is almost never sufficient
provocation to reduce a charge of murder to that of
manslaughter?
a. words and gestures
b. battery
c. adultery
d. trespass - ANSWER ->a. words and gestures

14. Corpus delicti means the
a. body of the crime
b. scene of the crime
c. essence of the crime
d. victim of the crime - ANSWER ->a. body of the crime

15. A killer whose gun shot misses the intended victim but kills
a bystander can be convicted of the intentional murder of the
bystander by use of the doctrine of a. transferred intent
b. accidental murder
c. common design
d. concurrent mens rea - ANSWER ->a. transferred intent

16. A death at the hands of one who intended to do only
serious bodily harm
a. will be prosecuted as a misdemeanor
b. will be prosecuted the same as intentional murder
c. will likely be prosecuted for a lesser degree of murder