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by DanBC 3713 days ago
You can't "unknowingly" commit theft (intent to dishonestly permanently deprive), emezzlement (intent to deceive) or murder (intent to unlawfully kill someone).
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As a clear counterexample: you can certainly commit negligent homicide without intending to.
Negligent homicide is not murder.
The language my top comment used was "homocide" and "negligent homocide" while the responder changed it to "murder". The point is that in the view of the justice system, sometimes it doesn't matter if you meant to kill someone or not--you still killed someone.
It does matter. The charges are different, the sentencing is different.
Yes, only one of your three examples was correct.

Homicide is so broad it's meaningless.

Even with negligent homicide the perpetrator's mindset is still taken into account. It is only negligent homicide if they should reasonably have known that their actions could cause the death.