Definition: "where a person of sound mind unlawfully kills any reasonable creature in being and under the Queens peace with malice aforethought, either express or implied"
Actus Reus: The killing must unlawful, the victim must be a human when attacked, the victim must die, under the queens peace Mens Rea: malice aforethought either express or implied.
Malice aforethought means that murder is a specific intent crime. Express or implied means that either of two intentions is sufficient.
express malice is the intetion to kill;
implied malice is the intetion to grevious bodily harm
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