Mrs. Smith returns home early from work one afternoon to discover her husband sexually embracing another woman. Mrs. Smith goes into a blind rage, takes a handgun she carried for protection from her purse, and shoots her husband to death. Mrs
Smith will most likely be charged with
A) aggravated battery.
B) excusable homicide.
C) manslaughter.
D) justifiable homicide.
E) murder in the first degree.
C
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