---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 919"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "919"
heading: "Art. 119. Manslaughter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/919"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §919. Art. 119. Manslaughter

- (a) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, with an intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm, unlawfully kills a human being in the heat of sudden passion caused by adequate provocation is guilty of voluntary manslaughter and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, without an intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm, unlawfully kills a human being—
  - (1) by culpable negligence; or
  - (2) while perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate an offense, other than those named in clause (4) of [section 918 of this title](/usc/10/918.md) (article 118), directly affecting the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2);

  is guilty of involuntary manslaughter and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 919(a)<br>919(b) | 50:713(a).<br>50:713(b). | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 119), 64 Stat. 140. |

The word “named” is substituted for the word “specified”.