X strike’ A’. I A’ is by this provocation excited to violent range. ‘Y’ a bystander intending to take advantage of ‘A’s rage and to cause him kill ‘X’, gives a revolver into ‘A’s hand for that purpose. ‘A’ kills ‘X’ with the revolver:
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When X strikes A and A, provoked to violent rage, strikes X (who would otherwise not have struck), A's act is covered by Exception 1 to Section 300 (grave and sudden provocation). It reduces murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder — a partial defence.