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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 200.160 – 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 200.180 – 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 200.200 – 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 […]