What are the justifiable circumstances homicide committed by private persons?

What will be an ideal response?


a. When there is reason to believe that a felony will be, or is being committed and a homicide must be committed as a means to prevent the felony. (An attempt to commit a felony involving no immediate injury to life or property would not justify homicide.)
b. When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person against one who intends by violence or surprise to commit a felony or who intends to enter the habitation for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein.
c. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person when there is reasonable ground to believe a felony or great bodily injury will be accomplished.
d. When necessarily committed in attempting by lawful ways and means to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or suppressing any riot, or in keeping and preserving the peace.

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