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A. Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in either of the following cases:

1. When resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to commit any violent crime or felony upon him, or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person is; or

2. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, domestic partner or mistress, when there is a reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a violent crime or felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or

3. When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any violent crime or felony committed; or in lawfully suppressing any riot; or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace. ONCA 22-33, eff. Apr. 25, 2022.