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                          HOUSE BILL 1139

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives McMahan and Lisk

Read first time 01/16/95.  Referred to Committee on Law and Justice.

Revising the elements required for the defense of justifiable homicide.

    AN ACT Relating to justifiable homicide; and amending RCW 9A.16.050.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.16.050 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.16.050 are each amended to read as follows:

    Homicide is also justifiable when committed either:

    (1) In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, 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 felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is ((imminent)) immediate danger of such design being accomplished; or

    (2) In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his or her presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode, in which he or she is.

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