When homicide is excusable or justifiable defendant to be acquitted.

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  2. New Mexico Statutes
  3. Criminal Offenses
  4. Homicide
  5. When homicide is excusable or justifiable defendant to be acquitted.

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Whenever any person is prosecuted for a homicide, and upon his trial the killing shall be found to have been excusable or justifiable, the jury shall find such person not guilty and he shall be discharged.

History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-2-9, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 2-9.


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