NRS 200.240 – Owner of animal that kills human being guilty of manslaughter under certain circumstances; penalty.
If the owner or custodian of any vicious or dangerous animal, knowing its propensities, willfully or negligently allows it to go at large, and the animal while at large kills a human being who is not in fault, the owner or custodian commits manslaughter and shall be punished for a category D felony as provided […]
NRS 200.260 – Death resulting from unlawful manufacture or storage of explosives; penalty.
A person who makes or keeps gunpowder or any other explosive substance in a city or town in any quantity or manner prohibited by law or by ordinance of the municipality commits manslaughter if an explosion thereof occurs whereby the death of a human being is occasioned, and shall be punished for a category D […]
NRS 200.140 – Justifiable homicide by peace officer.
1. Homicide is justifiable when committed by a peace officer, or person acting under the command and in the aid of the peace officer, in the following cases: (a) In obedience to the judgment of a competent court. (b) When necessary to overcome actual resistance to the execution of the legal process, mandate or order […]
NRS 200.150 – Justifiable or excusable homicide.
All other instances which stand upon the same footing of reason and justice as those enumerated shall be considered justifiable or excusable homicide. [1911 C&P § 132; RL § 6397; NCL § 10079]
NRS 200.160 – Additional cases of justifiable homicide.
Homicide is also justifiable when committed: 1. In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her spouse, parent, child, brother or sister, or of any other person in his or her presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a […]
NRS 200.170 – Burden of proving circumstances of mitigation or justifiable or excusable homicide.
The killing of the deceased named in the indictment or information by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse the homicide, will devolve on the accused, unless the proof on the part of the prosecution sufficiently manifests that the crime committed only amounts to manslaughter, or […]
NRS 200.180 – Excusable homicide by misadventure.
1. Excusable homicide by misadventure occurs when: (a) A person is doing a lawful act, without any intention of killing, yet unfortunately kills another, as where a person is at work with an ax and the head flies off and kills a bystander; or (b) An officer punishing a criminal happens to occasion death, which […]
NRS 200.190 – Justifiable or excusable homicide not punishable.
The homicide appearing to be justifiable or excusable, the person indicted shall, upon trial, be fully acquitted and discharged. [1911 C&P § 136; RL § 6401; NCL § 10083]
NRS 200.200 – Killing in self-defense.
If a person kills another in self-defense, it must appear that: 1. The danger was so urgent and pressing that, in order to save the person’s own life, or to prevent the person from receiving great bodily harm, the killing of the other was absolutely necessary; and 2. The person killed was the assailant, or […]
NRS 200.210 – Killing of unborn quick child; penalty.
A person who willfully kills an unborn quick child, by any injury committed upon the mother of the child, commits manslaughter and shall be punished for a category B felony by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 […]