What is ADEQUATE CAUSE? Definition of ADEQUATE CAUSE in Black's Law Dictionary
suffiicient cause for a par- ticular purpose. Pennsylvania & N. Y. Canal & R. Co. v. Mason, 109 Pa. 296, 58 Am.Rep. 722.
In criminal law, adequate cause for the passion which reduces a homicide committed under its influence from the grade of murder to manslau g hter, means such cause as would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror, in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection. Insulting words or gestures, or an assault and battery so slight as to show no intention to inflict pain or injury, or an injury to property unaccompanied by violence are not adequate causes. Vollintine v. State, 77 Tex.Cr.R. 522, 179 S.W. 108; Berry v. State, 157 S.W.2d 650, 652, 143 Tex.Cr.R. 67. See Adequate Provocation.
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