NRS 200.180
Excusable homicide by misadventure.

1.

Excusable homicide by misadventure occurs when:

(a)

A person is doing a lawful act, without any intention of killing, yet unfortunately kills another, as where a person is at work with an ax and the head flies off and kills a bystander; or

(b)

An officer punishing a criminal happens to occasion death, which acts of correction are lawful.

2.

If the officer exceeds the sentence under which the officer acts, either in the manner, the instrument, or quantity of punishment, and death ensues, it is manslaughter or murder, according to the circumstances of the case.

Source: Section 200.180 — Excusable homicide by misadventure., https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-200.html#NRS200Sec180.

200.010
“Murder” defined. 200.020
Malice: Express and implied defined. 200.030
Degrees of murder 200.033
Circumstances aggravating first degree murder. 200.035
Circumstances mitigating first degree murder. 200.040
“Manslaughter” defined. 200.050
“Voluntary manslaughter” defined. 200.060
When killing punished as murder. 200.070
“Involuntary manslaughter” defined. 200.080
Punishment for voluntary manslaughter. 200.090
Punishment for involuntary manslaughter. 200.110
Place of trial for homicide. 200.120
“Justifiable homicide” defined 200.130
Bare fear insufficient to justify killing 200.140
Justifiable homicide by public officer. 200.150
Justifiable or excusable homicide. 200.160
Additional cases of justifiable homicide. 200.170
Burden of proving circumstances of mitigation or justifiable or excusable homicide. 200.180
Excusable homicide by misadventure. 200.190
Justifiable or excusable homicide not punishable. 200.200
Killing in self-defense. 200.210
Killing of unborn quick child 200.220
Taking drugs to terminate pregnancy 200.230
Death resulting from overloading of passenger vessel 200.240
Owner of animal that kills human being guilty of manslaughter under certain circumstances 200.260
Death resulting from unlawful manufacture or storage of explosives

Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

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Original Source: Section 200.180 — Excusable homicide by misadventure., https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-200.html#NRS200Sec180 (last accessed Feb. 5, 2021).