200.120 - “Justifiable homicide” defined. - Nevada Statutes

200.120  “Justifiable homicide” defined.  Justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being in necessary self-defense, or in defense of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends, or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against any person or persons who manifestly intend and endeavor, in a violent, riotous, tumultuous or surreptitious manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of assaulting or offering personal violence to any person dwelling or being therein.

      [1911 C&P § 129; RL § 6394; NCL § 10076]—(NRS A 1983, 518)