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— Justifiable homicide is homicide in defense of person or property under certain circumstances of necessity; which is justifiable by the permission of the law. This takes place when a man, in defense of his person, habitation or property, kills another, who manifestly intends and endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a forcible or ...
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- Battery. 4.2. Battery on a law enforcement officer. 4.3. Resisting arrest. 4.4. Robbery. 4.5. Rape. 4.6. Murder. 4.7. Burglary 1. Legal definition of self defense in Virginia.
- Battery on a law enforcement officer. A battery on a police officer prohibits the unlawful touching of a law enforcement officer. The Virginia Code makes this crime a felony.
- Resisting arrest. Va Code § 18.2-479.1. Fleeing from a law-enforcement officer, or resisting arrest, prohibits a person from intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent a law-enforcement officer from lawfully arresting him, with or without a warrant.
- Robbery. Robbery, a common law crime in Virginia, is defined as a "taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation."
Article 1. Homicide. § 18.2-30. Murder and manslaughter declared felonies. Any person who commits aggravated murder, murder of the first degree, murder of the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter, is guilty of a felony. 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345. § 18.2-31.
A homicide in self-defense is justifiable where one who is without fault in provoking the difficulty kills in reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm. It is excusable where one who has been at fault kills after retreating and announcing his desire for peace. 2.
Oct 27, 2023 · Justified homicide is a term used in criminal law to refer to a killing that is legally permissible under certain circumstances. These circumstances often revolve around self-defense or the defense of others.
For example, in Virginia, a justifiable homicide in self-defense occurs where a person, without any fault on his part in provoking or bringing on the difficulty, kills another under reasonable apprehension of death or great bodily harm to himself.
The killing of one accidentally, contrary to the intention of the parties, while in the prosecution of some felonious act other than those specified in §§ 18.2-31 and 18.2-32, is murder of the second degree and is punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than five years nor more than forty years.
