{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-11.41.140","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 11.41.140","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In AS 11.41.100 — 11.41.140,\n(1) “ingestion” means voluntarily or involuntarily taking a substance into the body in any manner;\n(2) “person” means, when referring to the victim of a crime, a human being who has been born and was alive at the time of the criminal act; a person is “alive” if there is spontaneous respiratory or cardiac function or, when respiratory and cardiac functions are maintained by artificial means, there is spontaneous brain function.","path":["Title 11. Criminal Law.","Chapter 41. Offenses Against the Person.","Article 1. Homicide."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#11.41.140","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:16:41Z","sha256":"9cc42cbcd5774264bc8e44a1c45e33a437d62aa9ba9ab98096668f706f928025","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-11.41.135","next":"us-ak/as-11.41.150"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}