Bill Description: House Bill 579 would clarify that justifiable homicide can include the defense of any person, not just certain relatives or employees named in code. 

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One of the definitions of justifiable homicide contained in Section 18-4009, Idaho Code, says, “When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished.”

House Bill 579 would amend this section by replacing “a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress or servant of such person” with “another person”. 

This change would clarify that justifiable homicide can include the defense of any person, not just certain relatives or employees named in code. 

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