A person is justified in threatening or using force, but not deadly force, against another, when and to the degree the person reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent the other from committing suicide or from the self-infliction of serious bodily injury.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-613
Protection of life or health
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Michael Gardner v. United States (2011)
Most recently applied in Michael Gardner v. United States (September 2011)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.