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2005 Idaho Code - 20-111 — PRISONERS IN STATE PENITENTIARY -- JUSTIFIABLE KILLING OR WOUNDING
TITLE 20 STATE PRISON AND COUNTY JAILS CHAPTER 1 STATE PENITENTIARY 20-111. PRISONERS IN STATE PENITENTIARY -- JUSTIFIABLE KILLING OR WOUNDING. If any convict threatens personal injury to any officer, keeper or guard of the State Penitentiary or acts in such manner as may reasonably lead the officer, keeper or guard to believe his life or the life of any convict is in danger, or which leads the officer, keeper or guard, to believe the convict is attempting escape, then such officer, keeper or guard, may proceed forthwith to use any weapon he may have to enforce obedience, and if in so doing any convict shall be necessarily wounded or killed, the officer, keeper or guard is justified and shall be held guiltless.
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