Cite as: 21 CNCA § 733

Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in either of the following cases:

1. When resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any crime upon him, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is; or

2. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, when there is a reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a crime, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or

3. When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any crime committed; or in lawfully suppressing any riot; or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990.