From Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary": > HOMICIDE > -n. > The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable,

From Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary": > HOMICIDE > -n. > The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another - the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.