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California Penal Code

§ 197

PEN § 197 Effective Jan 1, 2017Title 8 · Part 1 · Ch. 1

Statute text

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Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in any of the following cases:
(1)When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person.
(2)When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends and endeavors, in a violent, riotous, or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein.
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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 67. (SB 1005) Effective January 1, 2017.

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