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20. In Rita Devis decision, the ambit of the word accident was considered as also whether and in what circumstances murder can be considered accidental as under:

murder is a felonious act where death is caused with intent and the perpetrators of tat act normally have a motive against the victim for such killing. The difference between a murder which is not an accident and a murder which is an accident depends on the proximity of the cause of such murder. If the dominant intention of the Act of felony is to kill any particular person then such killing is not an accident murder but is a murder simpliciter, while if the cause of murder or act of murder was originally not intended and the same was caused in furtherance of any other felonious act then such murder is an accidental murder.